I love Christmas music. This year (like many years, let’s be honest), I started playing it the week before Halloween . I’m still not tired of it.
Long before I knew there was research on the power of music to affect our minds and moods, I had discovered for myself that my children acted differently when there were different types of music playing. With a large number of children, I needed the most calm possible for all of us. I ended up with two favorite genres — New Age (think Enya, David Lanz or Yanni) and religious (think The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, Amy Grant or Hilary Weeks).
There is a special category in my heart, though, for Christmas music. The repertoire of memorized Christmas songs in my brain is large. I suspect if I ever get dementia, I’ll still be able to sing along with Christmas songs…