When Christmas Comes to Town

When Christmas Comes to Town, 1½ octaves, level 3, 2026, Sheet Music Plus

Here's a 1½ octaves of handbells arrangement (available for C5-G6 and for F5-C7) of the tender song When Christmas Comes to Town from the Warner Bros. Pictures’ animated musical Christmas adventure film The Polar Express. 

With its warm, lyrical scoring, the piece becomes a radiant miniature, perfectly suited to smaller ensembles or limited‑range groups. The handbells capture the song’s nostalgic glow, that quiet longing for Christmas magic to arrive and transform the ordinary.

This arrangement can be performed by few as three 4-in-hand handbell musicians. It provides an option to omit a section (which involves a number of sharps/flats bell changes) so that it can be optionally performed only on a diatonic range (no sharps/flats in the C5-G6 range, and only Bb in the F5-C7 range).

Click here to download from Sheet Music Plus in the range C5-G6 

Click here to download from Sheet Music Plus in the range F5-C7

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