Joy to the World
Isaac Watts's Christmas hymn to the tune Antioch, in Lowell Mason's own four parts, for 2 to 4 singers: the first verse, bright and steady. The soprano and alto sing "Let ev'ry heart prepare him room" in thirds over the bass's held note, then the tenor and bass come in a bar behind with their own "And heav'n and nature sing", and everyone meets on the last "sing".
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The first verse
Words: Isaac Watts (1719)Tune: "Antioch", arranged by Lowell Mason (1836)
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!Let earth receive her King;Let ev'ry heart prepare him room,And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n and nature sing,And heav'n and nature sing.
About Joy to the World
Joy to the World sets Isaac Watts's words, published in 1719 in his Psalms of David and based on Psalm 98, to the tune Antioch, which Lowell Mason published in 1836, arranging an English tune printed a few years before. Our arrangement is read from Mason's own four parts in The National Psalmist of 1848, in D, the key of his Modern Psalmist of 1839. This is the first verse for 2 to 4 singers: the tune runs straight down the scale on "Joy to the world", and on "And heav'n and nature sing" the tenor and bass come in a bar behind the others, as Mason already printed it in 1836 and as choirs still sing it today.
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