Name: Joy to the World (arr. Amir Awad) by Lowell Mason Chamber Group Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Amir Awad
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Joy to the World (arr. Amir Awad)
by Lowell Mason Chamber Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Joy to the World (arr. Amir Awad)

Artist Lowell Mason

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Lowell Mason

Arranger Amir Awad

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement Chamber Group

Publisher Amir Awad

Product ID 868751

Genre Christmas Baroque

Performance Group Chamber Orchestra

Product Description

"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas song. The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship. Watts wrote the words of "Joy to the World" as a hymn glorifying Christ's triumphant return at the end of the age, rather than a song celebrating His first coming. Only the second half of Watts' lyrics are still used today. The music was adapted and arranged to Watts' lyrics by Lowell Mason in 1839 from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel, not least because the theme of the refrain (And heaven and nature sing...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio. However, Handel did not compose the entire tune.] The name "Antioch" is generally used for the tune.

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