It’s Christmas Time + It’s Winter Time
Price range: $8.50 through $75.00
This gently flowing song in 3/4 time captures the magic of enjoying winter or Christmas as special times of the year. Teachers planning concerts and vocal recitals will appreciate the versatility of having both Christmas and winter options provided.
The Christmas words mention things that make Christmas a special time of year: sleigh bells, snowflakes, cold frosty air, traveling and visiting loved ones. This is an ideal song choice for concerts where the focus is on family, gifts, love and kindness and how these sentiments are associated with Christmas.
It’s Winter Time – The winter lyrics sparkle with winter imagery such as “houses with icicle diamonds to wear” and describes other features of a cold, frosty winter. This song also focuses on fun winter activities that are enjoyed with family and friends.
This song includes step-wise melodic lines presented in sequences. Long, fluid phrases take full advantage of rising and falling lines to create momentum and musical interest. A key change adds to the “lift” and contributes to a dramatic concert performance.
Conserving breath energy will be important to sing the long, flowing phrases. Use clear diction and expressive singing for a strong presentation of this song.
3 purchase options include:
- It’s Christmas Time
- It’s Winter Time
- It’s Christmas Time + It’s Winter Time – 2-song Combo
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Listen to Donna & Andy performance track (It’s Christmas Time):
Download Includes:
- Vocal score
- Lead sheet
- Director/piano score
- Lyrics
- Accompaniment – with melody guide
- Accompaniment – piano
- Donna & Andy band – instrumental track
- Donna & Andy – performance track (It’s Christmas Time)
- Teaching Tips
- Colouring page
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Follow along with the lyrics as you listen to the accompaniment with melody guide for It's Christmas Time & It's Winter Time.
It's Christmas Time is one of 11 songs from the award-winning song collection It's Christmas Time. Donna Rhodenizer has written these songs in a variety of styles and skill levels in both French and English for singers age 5-12+.
Learn more about this fun collection for elementary-aged kids, choirs and solo vocal students. The 146-page book provides the vocal score, full score and separate lyrics pages for 11 songs. Enjoy!
Please note: audio tracks for the e-book version are sold separately. Print copies of the book include CD (24 tracks)
It's Christmas Time song collection is also available on Amazon.
Stream or Purchase the It's Christmas Time tracks from many streaming sites including: Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer.
Donna & Andy have yet to record It's Winter Time.
The It's Christmas Time CD and tracks (Donna & Andy performance and instrumental tracks - 22) are available for download or physical CD on this website.
- Use this song to work on expressive singing.
- Discuss the necessity of clear diction to present the text in the rapidly moving eighth note sections.
- In a choral setting, use staggered breathing to accommodate the long, uninterrupted phrases indicated in the music.
- Solo singers need to plan breathing spots that will satisfy the need to breathe while accommodating the flow of the phrases. Add breath marks to the score to assist with consistent practice.
- When working on the long phrases, have singers move their hand in an arc to show the shape of the phrases.
- Decide what to do during the instrumental verse. In addition to the option of including a solo instrument, this section can include gentle movement using scarves or humming the melody line.
- If using an accompanist (rather than the recorded instrumental track) it is also acceptable to skip the instrumental section from rehearsal letter D – rehearsal letter E.
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It's Christmas Time
I have been inspired to write many of my compositions to fill repertoire needs for my students throughout the school year. I wrote this song for one of the many, many school Christmas concerts I planned and presented with my elementary school students. It is a lot of work to put on a school concert with over 500 students, but it was one of my favourite things to do during my 35-year career as a music education specialist. The grade 4-5 elementary choir was the group that took on this challenging piece of music with its plethora of lyrics and quickly moving eighth note passages that required extra attention to diction. I am pleased to recall that they did a super job at the concert. As the years progressed, Christmas concerts often included more winter-themed songs to accommodate students who didn’t celebrate Christmas. New lyrics were created and “It’s Winter Time” found its way into concert rotation. I am always pleased to offer my teaching colleagues options so that my music is as versatile and useful as possible. Giving teachers the option to choose either Christmas or winter lyrics is one way to offer this versatility.
In 2006, when recording our Donna & Andy CD: It’s Christmas Time, my son Benjamin and Andy’s niece, Oriana played French horns for this song. These two young players did such a super job adding that magical horn sound to our recording. It has a special place in my heart as one of my favourite Christmas songs.
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Free - download coloring pages for lots of Christmas Fun!
Free Download - 3 Christmas Coloring Pages
| Single Song or 2-song Combo | 1. It's Christmas Time, 2. It's Winter Time, 3. It's Christmas Time + It's Winter Time – 2-song Combo |
|---|---|
| License | Single User License, Classroom / Studio License, Treble Choir License, Small Ensemble License, Small Choir License, Large Choir License |
| Context | Choir – Elementary, Choir – Community, Choir Repertoire, Classroom Songs, Small Group Class, Vocal Solo, Choir – Unison, Song Collection – It's Christmas Time / C'est Noël |
| Topic | Celebrations, Christmas, Family, Holidays, Hope, Love, Seasonal, Winter, Celebratory, Childhood |
| Level | |
| Voicing | |
| Vocal Range | B3 – Eb5 |
| Duration | |
| Composer | Donna Rhodenizer |
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