8-Bell Christmas and Holiday Music

This 8-bell Christmas music list is designed as a guide for anyone considering booking us to play handbell duets for events during the holiday season.

Many of these titles are available to purchase from our music site, so if you’re looking for music for your own handbell choir to play, look no further! Our 8-bell Christmas music is interesting, challenging, beautiful… and there are pieces suitable for all small handbell ensembles, from beginner to expert!

Looking for a particular Christmas carol that you don’t see on this list?

If you’re considering booking us for a performance, and you’re looking for a particular piece of music that you don’t see on our list, please contact us and let us know. We can sometimes perform music that’s not on the list, although it’s important to note that there are legal and copyright issues surrounding some music, particularly more modern pieces. We also have some carols that use just six bells (with piano accompaniment), so if you have a particular request, it’s worth checking that list too.

A la Media Noche
The Angel Gabriel
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
As With Gladness, Men of Old (see For the Beauty of the Earth)
Auld Lang Syne
Away in a Manger

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Carol of the Drum
The Cherry Tree Carol
Child in the Manger (see Morning Has Broken / Bunessan)
Cold is this Little Child
Comfort, Comfort Ye, My People
Creator of the Stars of Night
Deck the Halls
Die Drie Koningen

Es is für Uns Eine Zeit Angekommen
The First Nowell
The Friendly Beasts
From Starry Skies Descending
Go, Tell it on the Mountain
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Good King Wenceslas
Hills of the North, Rejoice (with piano accompaniment)

How Great Our Joy
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (with piano accompaniment)
I Saw Three Ships
In the Bleak Midwinter
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (U.S. and U.K. versions)

Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Joy to the World
Jul, Jul, Strålande Jul
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Lo! He Comes, with Clouds Descending
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Love Came Down at Christmas (with piano accompaniment)
Selections from “The Nutcracker”

O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

O du frohliche
O Holy Night

O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
On this Day Earth Shall Ring
Once in Royal David’s City

Pat-a-Pan
People, Look East
Quelle est cette Odeur Agreable?
Santa’s Bag / De Zak van Sinterklaas
Savior of the Nations, Come
See, Amid the Winter’s Snow
The Seven Joys of Mary
Silent Night

Sing We Now of Christmas
Slumber Song of the Infant Jesus
The Snow Lay on the Ground
Still, Still, Still
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night All Christians Sing)
‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

Ukrainian Bell Carol
Up on the Housetop
The Wassail Song
We Three Kings
What Child is This?
While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night