Did you know that many of the same, popular Christmas songs are played in different soundtracks? Or that non-Christmas carols and even rock music are sometimes used to accentuate different parts in the movie, like in Jack Frost? While researching the Christmas movies for this post, we even found that some soundtracks were either one hundred percent original (i.e. composed just for that movie), a mixture of new compositions and old, or just renditions of other classical pieces. You’ll hear a few classical pieces in this Christmas movie playlist from Tchaikovsky; his music has appeared in Bad Santa, Prancer Returns, Nutcracker and A Christmas Story. (And those were just the holiday films we were researching!

You’ll also notice that there are more than a few songs that are geared for kids. In this christmas soundtrack playlist, enjoy songs from The Muppet Christmas Carol and the John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together holiday special, right along with A Charlie Brown Christmas and the ever-popular Polar Express, too.

Thanks for tuning in today for our Monday Melodies! Watch for a post listing several of the Christmas movies we have sheet music for later this week!

If you’d like to listen to any one of these free playlists, all you have to do is press the “play” button on the playlist you want. As always, all of the songs included in this selection of audio music have corresponding sheet music found through Musicnotes.com. If you find a song you like, you can use the “sheet music search” feature located on the side of this blog.

We hope you enjoy listening to this broad selection of music. Do you have a music style or a theme that you would like us to feature? Feel free to comment below and let us know!

• Christmas Music – Variety of artists and singers that perform novelty, traditional and Christian Christmas songs.
• Music from UK Bands – Dozens of great UK bands lend their voice to some rockin’ tunes.
• Music from Songs on XBox Live – XBox Live features artists and songs in downloadable video. Songs featured are on XBox Live and Musicnotes.com.
• Broadway Showtunes – To put a little spring in your step, listen to these Broadway hits.
• Variety of Music Styles and Artists – Songs chosen from our record-breaking upload of 300 songs in one week.
• American Patriotic Music – Music from the Armed Forces, classic American songs and more!
• Nostalgic Music from the 40s through Today – A time-travelling selection of songs that will bring back memories.
• Songs Based on Customer’s Favorite Sheet Music – Favorite new songs that our customers love.

Like all of you, we’re wrapping up November and counting down the days until Christmas. In today’s Monday Melodies music playlist, we’ve added seventy Christmas song titles for hours of Christmas music for you to listen to. This Christmas music playlist is a blend of novelty, Christian, and traditional Christmas music. We’ve also chosen a wide range of talented musicians and singers as well. Listen to Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Amy Grant, The Carpenters, Aretha Franklin, Josh Groban, Jimmy Buffett, Whitney Houston and dozens more!

We hope you enjoy today’s free Christmas music playlist. The songs chosen here are just a fraction of what we offer through our Christmas sheet music store. We’d also like to mention that on that page we offer music for other winter holidays like Hannukah and Kwanzaa, too!

Thanks so much for listening!

In today’s Monday Melodies free playlist, we’re happy to bring you memorable music from UK bands. Many of these songs incorporate piano, guitar and drums to create more of an acoustic feel to them. Tonight by Hard-Fi, Sunburn by Muse and (of course) many of Coldplay’s songs are great examples this concept. In Sunburn, for example, the song begins with a series of piano arpeggios, vocals and drums. As the vocalist continues, more and more instruments are added to intensify the effect of the lyrics to create a distinct sound.

Although we’ve featured songs from thirty-five UK bands in this Monday’s free playlist, we have sheet music for a lot more UK bands on Musicnotes.com than you might think. We hope you enjoy listening to this week’s Monday Melodies playlist as we take you over to the UK for some great tunes. Feel free to chime in and let us know what songs you enjoy.

Have a wonderful Monday, and thanks for listening!

Today’s free music playlist features songs from music videos available on the ever-popular XBox Live. Did you know that XBox started to incorporate music videos into their XBox Live Marketplace service from Warner Music just this past summer? They also announced in early October that they were adding music videos from Universal to XBox Live.

With more and more music videos added every day, you can watch all your favorite musicians and singers on XBox Live, then rock out in your own living room.

Whether you sing, play the piano, guitar or any other instrument, we hope you enjoy today’s free playlist featuring music from XBox Live’s music videos. As a friendly reminder, we’d also like to point out that every song we’ve featured here in today’s playlist has corresponding sheet music available through www.musicnotes.com.

We hope you have as much fun listening to our free playlists we do creating them. Thank you so much for listening, and have a wonderful day!

From contemporary broadway shows like Spamalot to classic musicals like Les Miserables, we are happy to share with you these musical selections.

Listen to your favorite showtunes like Greased Lightning, Under the Sea, Johanna and much, much more! We hope you enjoy this week’s edition of our Monday Melodies and we hope you take time to listen to these great songs and sing along!

Happy monday!

In this picture, you can see some of our production staff having fun with their fearless leader, Tom Nauman. Truly, the Production Team are gladiators (and gladiatrixes) at heart, and we congratulate each and every one of them for their hard work. All of us here at Musicnotes.com are very proud of this department not only because they created a new company record, but also because each and every one of them are truly talented and wonderful individuals and we’re happy to have them here.

In this week’s Monday Melodies Playlist, listen to music from The Spice Girls, Lipps, Inc., AC/DC, The Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey and more! We’ve added a range of musical styles this week for over forty songs that cover easy listening, country, hard rock, broadway and a few other surprises! Enjoy!

We’re delighted to provide you with this range of artists from our new releases featured last week. Featured in this Monday’s free playlist, is a range of thirty songs from multiple decades to include artists like Pink, Frank Sinatra, Natasha Bedingfield, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Simon and Garfunkel, The Monkees, Mariah Carey, Something Corporate and a whole lot more! From Chariots of Fire to Dancing Queen and Only You, enjoy this trip down nostalgia lane and listen to over an hour’s worth of free music. Each and every song was hand-picked from our sheet music inventory for your listening pleasure.

So sit back, relax and kick up your heels to these popular songs throughout the decades. Until next time, remember that in order to keep the music flowing, you’ll need to keep your notes “in tune” and your ears sharp.

Although we welcome last week’s sheet music downloads into our ever-growing songbook of almost 90,000 titles, we hope that you’ll revisit our weekly collection of new sheet music updates. There’s a lot of great titles in the mix to explore in several different styles of music.

This week’s Monday Melody Playlist from Musicnotes.com is a collection of Top Downloaded Sheet Music for the week beginning October 5, 2008 and our New Releases from last week that we’ve put together especially for you. I hope you’ll listen to our selection of songs and stay in tune with your musical side.