festive songs
Seasonal celebratory tunes
Festive songs are music associated with celebrations, especially holidays.
The phrase most often refers to Christmas carols and other seasonal music that plays in stores, at parties, and on the radio from late November through December: The mall was already blasting festive songs before Thanksgiving.
- carolsFestive religious songs
- deck the hallsPrepare home for Christmas
- jingle bellsSmall ringing harness ornaments
- jinglesBrief advertising melodies
- folk tunesTraditional communal melodies
campfire songs · Christmas · hymns · harvest songs · shanties · victory chants · school spirit · spirituals · nursery rhymes · drinking songs · gospel songs · noel · pop anthems · psalms · wassail · national anthems · yuletide · holiday cheer
- holiday songsSilent Night, The First Noel, White Christmas, Jingle Bells, Rudolph
- Polish musicChopin, polonaise, mazurka, patriotic songs, mountain songs
- New Year's MusicAuld Lang Syne, champagne toasts, champagne pop, clock chimes
- Caribbean folkbomba, cuatro, danza, guiro, maracas
emotional tone/mood
festive songsdirges
Mournful funeral songs
laments · elegies · requiems · funeral hymns · mourning songs