This page contains information on Christmas sheet music for the piano including both free and paid material. Featured sheet music includes ranges from beginner 3-chord songs all the way up to advanced techniques.
Christmas Piano Sheet Music Definitions
- Lead sheet: Sheet music that gives only the fundamental elements of a song without specifying exactly how it will be played
- Sight reading: Playing a piece of sheet music while reading it for the first time
Piano Fast Facts
- Name derived from the Italian pianoforte
- Commonly 150 cm wide
- Likely inventor: Padua, Italy's Bartolomeo Cristofori
- First known piano surfaced around 1700
- Descendant of the clavichord and harpsichord
- Popular configurations: Grand, baby grand and upright
- Self-playing "player" piano invented in 1895Pianola: Piano Player History
- Digital pianos and electronic keyboards came into wide use in the 1980s
- Key instrument in classical, jazz and R&B
