Joy to the World
by Lowell Mason (after Handel)
Free sheet music library / Joy to the World
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 100
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 4
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Christmas
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Lowell Mason (after Handel) (1792–1872)
About this piece
A carol with a tune that starts with a falling scale from the top of the key to the bottom, a shape that Lowell Mason took from themes in Handel's "Messiah". Isaac Watts wrote the words in 1719.
Why it is free to use
Lowell Mason (after Handel) died in 1872, more than 70 years ago, and the piece dates from about 1848. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Joy to the World is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.