Music and Time Annotation << Back Music for Christmas N. Gulianitskaya The paper is a comment to many significant culture events such as music festivals, concerts, conferences which took place in Moscow and other Russian cities at the turn of 2013. It is а discourse about contemporary Christmas sacral music created by contemporary Russian composers. The author who is interested in sacral music and published a number of papers about it discusses works of different genires, their form and content, style and staylistics. The significance of their music inspires many famous musical groups such as P.I. Tchaikovsky Big Symphonic Orchestra,«Early Music Academy», Moscow Synod Choir, «Sirin», A.A. Yurlov Choir Chapel etc. The present works' genres form an abundant collection of images and musical means. Keywords: contemporary sacral music, Russian music, bishop Hilarion, V. Martynov, A. Viskov, Christmas Contacts: E-mail: natasergul@yandex.ru Pp. 37-40.