The Millennia Collection of Glorious Christmas Music, Songs and Carols A significantly new family of Christmas music products planned for future release. Each product combines beautiful Christmas music with wonderful text and lyrics and rich images of great art and illustration.    THE MUSIC: Authentic audio recordings by some of the greatest recording artists, musicians, choirs and orchestras of the 20th century, including many of the original performers for the best selling holiday songs (12 CDs). These beautiful songs and carols are arranged in a variety of formats, including vocal arrangements for solo performers and choirs, and instrumental arrangements for great orchestras and other classical groups, as well as for specific musical instruments, such as organ, panpipes, brass, bagpipes, carillon bells, hand bells, Celtic harp, and music boxes.        THE TEXT: An historical perspective of how Christmas music developed from early times, original lyrics in vernacular with English translations for all 170 titles, and other interesting anecdotal information about the composers and Christmas customs and traditions.     This authoritative perspective also serves as an excellent primer of the development of Christmas music since the birth of Christ. It tells when and where the selection was composed; it provides brief biographical information about the composers of the lyrics and music; it relates interesting anecdotal information about either the composer or the selection, or both.     The text is accompanied by a supportive and extensive Bibliography, which includes practically every major book written on or about the topic, together with Notes, a Glossary of musical terminology, and an elaborate set of Indices including Title Index, Authors/Persons Index, Century Index, Calendar Index, Origins Index, and Musical Classification Index.     Stories of Christmas customs and traditions are neatly woven into the fabric of the text, e.g., St. Nicholas and his evolution into Santa Claus is described and timely illustrated under the song title "'Twas The Night Before Christmas."        THE ILLUSTRATIONS: Beautiful fine art and illustrations, perhaps the greatest collection of Christmas art ever assembled9works contemporary to the country and era when the music was composed. Great art and illustrations not only bring color, but also provide the consumer with images that more accurately reflect the artistic view of themes about music and Christmas in a given country or era. Thus, the consumer can enjoy Christmas Nativity scenes in richly illuminated Medieval manuscripts, or Renaissance paintings by Bottecelli and Fra Angelico, or nostalgic American holiday illustrations by Norman Rockwell and his 20th-century contemporaries, especially those of the 1940s and 1950s. Millennia Collection 3-Volume Set Buy all three products for the Special Sale Price of $109.95, a $30 savings. Reg. $139.85	A comprehensive collection of 170 music and song titles THE MILLENNIA COLLECTION will also be available separately as 9 individual products. Each volume of text will be finely illustrated and accompanied by an audio component. They are as follows: * Product #1. Best Loved Christmas Carols: twenty-five (25) of the most famous and often played carols from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and other countries (illustrated book and one CD). Released for the year 2000. Available now.     * Product #2. American Christmas Classics: forty-seven (47) titles, including traditional carols and from the 18th to 20th century, and popular holiday songs from the 20th century, including some of the greatest selling songs of recording history (illustrated book and three CDs). Available now.     * Product #3. Children's Christmas Classics: twenty-six (26) titles, including fifteen (15) carols and one suite of six (6) carols, plus classical works by Britten, Tchaikovsky, and Humperdinck, all assembled for the listening pleasure of children (illustrated book and one CD). Available now.     * Product #4. Sacred Christmas Music: twenty-eight (28) titles covering a span of fifteen hundred years, including beautiful hymns and carols, Gregorian chant, baroque concerti, oratorios, and performed on a variety of instruments, including harpsichord, organ, carillon bells, and brass, and music program scheduled on the organization of the ancient Mass (illustrated book and two CDs).     * Product #5. Christmas Carols from the British Isles: fifty-five (55) wonderful titles, including the best known carols from England, Scotland, and Wales, that date from the 13th to 20th century. Special carol suites by Benjamin Britten, Geoffrey Bush, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (illustrated book and two CDs).     * Product #6. German Christmas Music: eighteen (18) titles from Germany and Austria, including classical works by Bach, Schutz, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Humperdinck, and carols from the 14th to 19th century (illustrated book and one CD).     * Product #7. Worldwide Christmas Classics: twenty-seven (27) carols and hymns, waltz, and a Mozart piece, mostly from European countries and covering the period from the 15th to 20th century (illustrated book and one CD).     * Product #8. French Noels & Music: nineteen (19) titles composed for Christmas from the 9th to 20th century, including some of the finest Latin hymns and carols for organ, and classical works by Saint-Saens, Berlioz, and Franck (illustrated book and one CD).     * Product #9. Golden Musical Ornaments: twenty-four (24) of the finest carols and songs composed for Christmas or its holidays from the 15th to 20th century, including jewels from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Wales, Spain, and the Czech Republic (illustrated book and one CD).