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November Christmas Sheet Music Book Sale

November Christmas Sheet Music Book Sale

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by Monica.

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musicnotes-santaLooking for a holiday gift idea for the music lover in your life? From now until midnight, November 30th, enjoy up to thirty percent off a variety of Christmas sheet music books. You do not have to enter a coupon code when you check out; both the original and the sale price are listed on each book’s description from our Christmas sheet music book store.

Browse our Christmas sheet music books on sale to see what we have available. We offer a variety of Christmas sheet music books on sale including: Christian, rock-n-roll, traditional, contemporary, artist-or-movie related and many more! We will be updating this page frequently, so be sure to bookmark it to see if anything interests you and enjoy some great savings!

The Muppet Christmas CarolIf available, many of these books, like The Muppet Christmas Carol offer individual digital sheet music downloads, too. So if you see a song you like, you can simply click on it from the songbook information. The Muppet Christmas Carol songbook features eleven new Muppet Christmas carols and full color photos. This particular book offers songs from the 1992 film.

Released in 1992, it is one of many film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The movie follows Ebenezer Scrooge who is a cruel and ruthless money lender. His immoral business practices cause bring a lot of hardship to London’s Camden town, the film’s setting. During the night of Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by three ghosts; the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. He discovers the errors of his ways and becomes an honest and charitable man. The film is a musical with seven songs in the original theatrical release.–SOURCE: Wikipedia

Here are the songs printed in this kid-friendly Christmas songbook for The Muppet Christmas Carol sheet music.

We hope you enjoy this limited-time savings on a variety of Christmas sheet music books through Musicnotes.com! For more Christmas sheet music ideas, be sure to browse our sale on Christmas sheet music books on sale or our selection of Christmas sheet music to see what we have available.

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Free Holiday Songs, New Suggestions & Contest News in The Rest

Free Holiday Songs, New Suggestions & Contest News in The Rest

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by Monica.

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Tis the SeasonFor this month’s free sheet music download, we are offering separate arrangements for piano and guitar.

For our free piano sheet music download, we are featuring a holiday medley of the songs Jolly Old St. Nicholas and Up on the Housetop.

Jolly Old St. Nicholas is a traditional Christmas carol that may have been composed in the early 1900s. The simple lyrics are about someone wishing for St. Nick to come and leave them presents in their stockings. Up on the Housetop (Ho! Ho! Ho!) is an older traditional Christmas carol from the 1860s. Composed by Benjamin Hanby, this popular tune is also about Santa coming down the chimney to fill the stockings of little kids with presents. Combined, the two carols together create a fun, holiday medley that we hope you’ll enjoy singing and playing.

This holiday medley is available as a free sheet music download from now until the end of November. We have provided abridged lyrics as part of the medley, so you can sing our arrangement as a solo or with your family and friends!

Guitar Guru Lovers! Download the Russian Dance for Free!

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This month’s free Guitar Guru Session and guitar tab, is a movement from The Nutcracker Suite composed by Tchaikovsky. The Russian Dance, which is also known as Trepak, was composed as part of the ballet in the early 1890s.

Now you can learn how to play the Russian Dance from The Nutcracker Ballet on guitar for free, through the month of November. Simply visit our free sheet music page to download this seasonal arrangement. We hope you enjoy it!

New Songs from YOUR Requests!

We have been hard at work adding a ton of new songs that you’ve asked for. First, we’d like to point out that we are expanding our selection of alternate instruments solos. This week, we added a ton of popular flute sheet music solos by some of your favorite artists. We’ve also added quite a few fun songs for guitar, including new guitar tab by Taylor Swift.

Here are some new songs we’ve added from the songs that you’ve requested:

Contest News! Guitar Guru Headset Give-a-Way and New Contest!

For the month of November, be sure to check out our Suggest a Winter Holiday Song Contest for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Musicnotes.com!

We’ve contacted our Guitar Guru headset winner for October’s contest. Thank you to everyone who entered for a chance to win.

Until next time, remember… practice really does make perfect!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Song Requests in The Whole Note

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Song Requests in The Whole Note

Posted on Oct 23, 2009 by Monica.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Once More With FeelingAre you a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? This television show, created by Joss Whedon, was about a teenage slayer who hunts vampires. Certain episodes were risky, creative endeavors that pushed the boundaries of this paranormal show. For example, Hush was an episode nominated for an Emmy with very little dialogue. Once More With Feeling was a musical episode that is widely popular, even to this day. The lyrics were part of the episode’s story, so characters often broke out into song. Of course, there were also a few random blurbs in the show that added a little bit of silliness, too.

With music and lyrics written by Joss Whedon, the songs offer a range of styles from jazz to rock to Broadway. Now, you can download digital sheet music for Once More With Feeling. Here are some of the more memorable songs from this popular episode:

In addition to songs from this musical episode, we also have more sheet music from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including the theme song.

Hit Songs from Your Song Requests

MusicNotes HalloweenWe are pleased to announce that we’ve added these brand new songs straight from your song requests from some wonderful performers!

Stay tuned for more news about your song requests and Christmas sheet music. We’ve heard that some of you are already practicing Christmas carols, and we want to ensure that we get you the sheet music you need to sing or play for this year’s holiday season!

ONE WEEK LEFT! Take $1.00 Off Your Next Digital Music Purchase

$1.00 OFF!

Tickle your ivories and warm up your pipes! We’re offering you the chance to save $1.00 off of your next digital sheet music purchase. Simply enter in MNTREAT when you check out and enjoy a $1.00 off savings on any digital music download. Limit one coupon per customer. We hope you enjoy our Halloween treat to you!

Offer Expires: Midnight, Oct 31, 2009  – Use coupon code MNTREAT when you shop at Musicnotes.com and enjoy $1 off your digital purchase including: sheet music, guitar tab or Guitar Guru Session.

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Spooky Broadway Shows, $1 Off Treat and More in The Whole Note

Spooky Broadway Shows, $1 Off Treat and More in The Whole Note

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 by Monica.

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Spooky Broadway ShowsIn this edition of The Whole Note, we’d like to turn your attention to the sound and stage. Do you know what’s lurking behind the curtain? We do! There are several Broadway shows that are perfect for Halloween. Whether they inspire you to dress up in costume or sing a little tune, we think you might get a kick out of these shows.

SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a Broadway show that first appeared on stage in the late 1970s. Based on a character from the Penny Dreadful serial novel from the mid-1860s, this spooky barber cut more than his client’s hair. Assisted by Mrs. Lovett who bakes his victims into her pies, this is definitely one of the creepier shows ever to hit the stage on Broadway. Songs include Green Finch and Linnet Bird, Not While I’m Around and The Worst Pies in London.

Man-eating plants from outer space, frightening dentists and big hair run amok in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The show has a little bit of a “B”-movie feel to it. A popular show for a lot of kids, songs include Suddenly, Seymour, Somewhere That’s Green and Feed Me.

Both PHANTOM and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA were inspired by the 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra written by Gaston Leroux. The story of a disfigured man-in-the-shadows who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Christine may be part romance, but it’s also a terrifying and tragic story, too. Over the years, the phantom’s signature mask has inspired many Halloween costumes. The new PHANTOM is more like the original novel than the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, but both offer memorable and haunting songs like Think of Me and Home.

Other Broadway shows perfect for Halloween include WICKED, JEKYLL AND HYDE, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

New Moon Sheet Music New Releases!

New Moon SoundtrackThis week, we’ve added two classical pieces from the brand new NEW MOON soundtrack. Both of these songs are part of the bonus track on the CD, and sheet music is available for instant download.

Be sure to watch Musicnotes.com for more updates about upcoming sheet music for New Moon.

Join Your Fellow Music Lovers on Facebook!

facebook_logoHave you visited Musicnotes on Facebook? We have been having a lot of fun on our Facebook page. Many of you have chimed in and offered us feedback or enjoyed our Facebook-specific contests. When you become a fan of us on Facebook, we’ll offer you some sneak previews that will show up in your updates.

Thank you so much for sharing your love of music! We hope you continue playing and practicing your favorite songs!

And if you’re on Facebook…we’ll see you there!

Trick or Treat! Take $1.00 Off Your Next Digital Music Purchase

$1.00 OFF!

Tickle your ivories and warm up your pipes! We’re offering you the chance to save $1.00 off of your next digital sheet music purchase. Simply enter in MNTREAT when you check out and enjoy a $1.00 off savings on any digital music download. Limit one coupon per customer. We hope you enjoy our Halloween treat to you!

Offer Expires: Midnight, Oct 31, 2009  – Use coupon code MNTREAT when you shop at Musicnotes.com and enjoy $1 off your digital purchase including: sheet music, guitar tab or Guitar Guru Session.

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Free Estudio Brillante Guitar Tab and Headset Give-A-Way

Free Estudio Brillante Guitar Tab and Headset Give-A-Way

Posted on Oct 02, 2009 by Monica.

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Classical GuitaristSpanish guitarist-composer Francisco Tarrega wrote ESTUDIO BRILLANTE in the late 19th Century. This incredibly difficult etude was based on a sonatina by French violinist-composer Jean-Delphin Alard. In addition to Tarrega’s performing and teaching ability, he also arranged many pre-existing works for guitar by composers such as; Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.

Even though he only wrote less than a hundred pieces for the guitar, the short compositions are enjoyed by many guitarists. Within the music world, many consider Tarrega to be an important founding figure for the classical guitar genre. Other works by Tarrega include how most famous work, RECUERDOS DE LA ALHAMBRA, and LAGRIMA, a popular guitar tab for beginners.

Your free download of ESTUDIO BRILLANTE includes an interactive Guitar Guru Session plus free printable guitar tab, and is available through October 31st.

Download your free guitar tab and Guitar Guru Session for ESTUDIO BRILLANT today. For more recommendations on classical pieces for guitar, we recommend browsing our selection of classical guitar tab.

Guitar Guru Headset Give-A-Way (for PC)

Guitar Guru HeadsetFrom now until the end of October, comment on this blog post for your chance to win a Guitar Guru headset. To enter, all you have to do is comment below telling us about the song that you had the most fun learning how to play.

What can you do with your Guitar Guru headset? From learning how to play songs from The Beatles Rock Band to our new features in Guitar Guru 3.0, a headset enhances your overall guitar song learning experience. Guitar Guru features voice command functionality for the PC, so using a headset allows you to keep your hands on your guitar while you’re learning how to play your song. We tested a bunch of different headsets for Guitar Guru yet one stood out among all the brands we tested. This Plantronics headset offers noise-canceling, excellent sound quality, and has a retail value of $24.95.

Be sure to comment on this post for your chance to win! Contest ends midnight on October 31st. Limited to one entry per customer. One lucky winner will be contacted via email by November 2nd, 2009, so be sure to provide a valid email address in the comment field. We respect your privacy, and will not use your email address for any other purpose than this contest.

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Piano Players! Download Kitten On The Keys for Free in October

Piano Players! Download Kitten On The Keys for Free in October

Posted on Oct 02, 2009 by Monica.

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Kitten on the Keys_SmallThis month’s free piano sheet music download is a challenging ragtime song entitled KITTEN ON THE KEYS. Composed in 1921 by the late Edward Elzear “Zez” Confrey, KITTEN ON THE KEYS became an instant hit. This fun, ragtime piano solo sounds almost exactly like a playful kitten traipsing around on your piano keys.

A very challenging piece to master due to its construction and “slide” technique, download free piano sheet music for KITTEN ON THE KEYS from now until October 31st. (Please note that we are offering a different song for guitar this month.)

If you enjoy ragtime music, you might love to play or sing some of these other lighthearted songs:

For more suggestions on ragtime songs, we recommend checking out our selection of Scott Joplin sheet music to help you get some ideas.

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Great Song Requests and Vocal Method Book Sales in The Whole Note

Great Song Requests and Vocal Method Book Sales in The Whole Note

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 by Monica.

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Meet Me On the EquinoxFrom sheet music for songs from Glee to filling your song requests and adding sheet music for songs from The Beatles: Rock Band, we have had a very busy past couple of weeks. We are thrilled to announce several new songs that we’ve been working on. Some of these songs are older; some are “brand new.”

For example, we have sheet music for Meet Me On The Equinox from Death Cab for Cutie. This song is the first song announced for the movie NEW MOON, the sequel to TWILIGHT. The song Magic by Selena Gomez, on the other hand, is a song from the 70s that many of you have asked for.

Here is a list of some other great songs that we’ve been adding to fulfill your song requests:

For those of you that prefer Christian sheet music, we’d also like to point out a few songs that we’ve added for your requests, too.

If you’re interested, please feel free to add your sheet music requests through our song suggestion tool.

Up to 25% Off Vocal Method Books

The Contemporary SingerAre you a vocalist who wants to improve your skills? How about a singer who wants to improve your sight-reading? Whenever we talk about things like How To Find Your Vocal Range or offer some Sheet Music Sight-Reading Tips, you often tell us how much you appreciate the information. To help you become a better singer, we’re putting a great selection of vocal method books on sale.

From now through midnight, September 30th, enjoy up to twenty-five percent off select vocal method books. The price is automatically deducted from the books you want to buy; there’s no minimum purchase nor do you have to enter a coupon.

Included in our sale are vocal method books like The New Voice (How to Sing and Speak Properly) or the The Contemporary Singer (Elements of Vocal Technique) which we’ve pictured on the left. The New Voice method book has more of an emphasis on singing mechanics and is originally $15.95, but it’s on sale for $12.76, while The Contemporary Singer is perfect for vocalists wanting to appear on stage. We also recommend the book Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly, for those of you who want to improve your skills in that area.

To take advantage of this sale, we invite you to visit our vocal method books page to browse our recommended titles.

Take 10% Off Guitar Guru Sessions

guru2_2501We recently had some fun promotions for Guitar Guru, like our huge $10,000 give-a-way, but we’re not done yet! From now until midnight, September 30th take ten percent off of your favorite Guitar Guru Sessions. Just enter code GG3TEN at checkout to take advantage of the savings. Limit one per customer.

You might want to check out some of the hot new Sessions we’ve added. This Guitar Guru Session of Yesterday by The Beatles has already hit our top five! With the release of the remastered CDs and BEATLES: ROCK BAND, Beatlemania seems to have literally struck a chord with guitarists. Check out these Guitar Guru Sessions for The Beatles to see some of the new Sessions we’ve added.

If you’re not sure what you want to play, here’s a few more suggestions from a broad range of musical styles for you:

Well that’s all the time we have for this week’s edition of The Whole Note. Until next time, make sure you tighten those strings and flex your fingers!

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Musicnotes.com Launches Guitar Guru 3 with $10,000 Give-a-way in Guitar Guru Sessions

Musicnotes.com Launches Guitar Guru 3 with $10,000 Give-a-way in Guitar Guru Sessions

Posted on Sep 02, 2009 by Bill Aicher (Director of Marketing).

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Madison, WI – September 2, 2009 – Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today it recently launched Guitar Guru 3, the latest major upgrade to Musicnotes’ popular Guitar Guru software platform.

To celebrate this release, Musicnotes.com is giving away $10,000 in Guitar Guru Sessions starting Thursday, September 3rd 2009 at 3:00 p.m. CDT.

Guitar Guru provides an enhanced interface to help guitarists and bass guitarists learn to play their favorite songs through downloadable Guitar Guru Sessions. Currently, the ever-growing catalog features over 1,500 songs including artists such as Metallica, Jason Mraz, Green Day, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Ozzy Osbourne and more!

Some of the new features in Guitar Guru 3 include:

    Better, More Contemporary Look and Feel. New user interface includes a scalable fretboard and enhanced music notation.
    Tempo Change with Correct Pitch. Musicians can slow down or speed up audio playback while maintaining the correct pitch..
    Precision Audio-Syncing. The queue position of CDs and audio files, including MP3s, can now be matched to the Session to within 1/10 of a second. (PC only)

The $10,000 in Guitar Guru Sessions will be given out to the first 1,000 customers in $10 increments.

For more details on how you can be a part of this Guitar Guru Give-a-way, visit www.musicnotes.com/guitarguru at 3:00 p.m. CDT on Thursday, September 3rd.

About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of almost 100,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Disney Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Music Company, Peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others. Musicnotes is included in Internet Retailer Magazine’s list of the Top 500 Online Retailers and was recently selected by Internet Retailer as a “Hot 100″ site for 2009.

In 2008, Musicnotes.com purchased and re-launched MXTabs.net, turning it into the web’s first “free and legal” guitar, bass and drums tab community.

On the Web: http://www.musicnotes.com and http://www.mxtabs.net.

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“School Days” Free Sheet Music Download for September

“School Days” Free Sheet Music Download for September

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 by Monica.

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Red School HouseThe song “School Days” was originally written in 1906, and was registered with the copyright office in 1907. This sentimental song about two adults looking back on their youth is also known by the title “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids).” Now you can download free sheet music for School Days through the end of September.

The lyrics (which are included below) describe the story of two adult characters named “Nellie” and “Joe,” who take a nostalgic look back at their time in school during the late 1800s. Some of the lyrics shine a light on a much different period of education. For example, a hickory stick was used to discipline kids back in those days, whereas that would never be permitted in today’s educational system.

Fans of music from this era might recognize some other songs by Gus Edwards, who composed School Days. “In My Merry Oldsmobile” and “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon” are two of his most beloved songs.

Click here to get free sheet music for School Days through September 30th.

Lyrics for “School Days”

VERSE 1
Nothing to do, Nellie Darling
Nothing to do you say
Let’s take a trip on memory’s ship
Back to the bygone days
Sail to the old village school house
Anchor outside the school door
Look in and see
There’s you and there’s me
A couple of kids once more

REFRAIN
School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
“I love you, so”
When we were a couple of kids

VERSE 2
‘Member the hill Nellie Darling
And the oak tree that grew on its brow
They’ve built forty storeys
Upon that old hill
And the oak’s an old chestnut now
‘Member the meadows so green, dear
So fragrant with clover and maize
Into new city lots
And preferred business plots
They’ve cut them up since those days

REFRAIN
School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days.
Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
“I love you, so”
When we were a couple of kids

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Alfred Music Publishing and Musicnotes.com Partner to Honor Les Paul’s Memory with a Free Guitar Lesson Download of “Over the Rainbow”

Alfred Music Publishing and Musicnotes.com Partner to Honor Les Paul’s Memory with a Free Guitar Lesson Download of “Over the Rainbow”

Posted on Aug 27, 2009 by Bill Aicher (Director of Marketing).

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Les PaulMusicnotes.com has partnered with Alfred Music Publishing to offer music lovers everywhere a free Guitar Guru Session and guitar tab download of “Over the Rainbow” to honor Les Paul’s memory.

Now through midnight on September 2, 2009, visitors to Musicnotes.com can download a free, interactive Guitar Lesson (including matching guitar tab that’s worth $7.95) for “Over the Rainbow.” This particular arrangement was arranged by Grammy award-winning artist Aaron Stang, from Alfred Music Publishing to match the performance recorded by Les Paul and Chet Atkins and featured on the album, ‘Masters of the Guitar – Together.’

“Les Paul closed every show at the legendary jazz club Iridium in New York City with an instrumental version of this song,” said Tim Reiland, Chairman of Musicnotes.com. “This song has a very emotional meaning for musicians everywhere.”

In lieu of payment, Musicnotes and Alfred Music Publishing encourage users who choose to download the song to send donations to the Les Paul Foundation, 236 W. 30th St., Seventh Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001.

The free download is available online at http://www.musicnotes.com/free (now through midnight, September 2, 2009). Be sure to watch a video of Les Paul playing Over the Rainbow on YouTube!.

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Save Big on Digital Sheet Music Collections

Save Big on Digital Sheet Music Collections

Posted on Aug 07, 2009 by Monica.

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Dollar signOur digital sheet music collections are a great way to help you save time and money. From Broadway sheet music to pop or Christmas and everything in between, we’ve put together hundreds of money-saving sheet music collections for you to enjoy. For your convenience, we’ve highlighted some of our most popular collections. Underneath each sheet music collection, we’ve also listed the original, sale and the discounted price. The original price would be the amount you’d spend if you bought each song individually and downloaded it.

Be sure to browse through our digital sheet music collections to find the one you’re looking for. At the bottom of each collection on our website, you can see a detailed song list so you know what sheet music is included with each one.

Bands and Artists Sheet Music Collections

Everything in Transit by Jack's MannequinOur sheet music collections can not only save you money, but they can also help you support your favorite band or artist, too. Here are a few of the more popular sheet music collections for bands and artists that we have on Musicnotes.com.

For more sheet music collections by your favorite bands or artists, be sure to browse Pop Song Sheet Music Collections or browse all digital sheet music collections at Musicnotes.com.

Broadway Sheet Music Collections

The Lion King Sheet Music CollectionFor Broadway and musical sheet music fans, we are proud to feature quite a few sheet music collections that include favorites like Mary Poppins, The Lion King and more!

For more Broadway sheet music collections, browse Broadway Show Sheet Music Collections on Musicnotes.com.

TV Show & Movie Sheet Music Collections

Nightmare Before Christmas Sheet Music CollectionMany TV shows and movies feature some of your most well-loved songs. Some TV shows and movies have also been turned into Broadway (or off-Broadway) productions, too. Here are some fun TV show and movie sheet music collections that we recommend:

For more sheet music from your favorite TV shows and movies, be sure to browse TV Show & Movie Sheet Music Collections

Popular Holiday Sheet Music Collections

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Sheet Music CollectionJust like there’s a song for every season, there’s a collection for every holiday, too! Here are a few of our sheet music collections for life events and holidays:

For more life event and holiday sheet music collections, we invite you to browse Holiday and Special Occasion Sheet Music Collections

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