Joy To The World- Christmas Free Sheet Music and Lyrics

Christmas tree This document contains links to free sheet music and lyrics for the vocal and instrumental melody parts to the traditional Christmas song , Joy To The World. Parts are available for all common concert band instruments including flute, clarinet,saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, bells, and voice.

Like many traditional Christmas songs and carols, the music and words to Joy to the World were composed by different people at very different times in history. The lyrics to Joy To The World were first written in 1719 by Isaac Watts , a well educated Englishman with a propensity for using rhyme even in casual spech. Nearly a hundred years later another Englishman, Lowell Mason , took Watts' poem and set it to music. The tune closely resembles Handel's Messiah in some ways, but it is not an exact transcription. Joy To The World was arranged with different lyrics by a gentleman named W.W. Phelps in the mid 1830's for use by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints but the new lyrics were not widely used and it quickly fell out of favor.

For more information about George Frederick Handel please visit the MusicEdMagic Music Composer Research Database .

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Joy To The World

#	Name	Size	Downloaded
1	JoyToTheWorld (View)	20.76 kB	1469 times
2	Joy To The World Voice (View)	12.16 kB	3144 times
3	Joy To The World Voice (View)	18.9 kB	1068 times
4	Joy To The World Tuba (View)	11.37 kB	1486 times
5	Joy To The World Tuba (View)	18.41 kB	722 times
6	Joy To The World Trumpet (View)	12.65 kB	3740 times
7	Joy To The World Trumpet (View)	18.4 kB	1024 times
8	Joy To The World Trombone (View)	11.13 kB	2962 times
9	Joy To The World Trombone (View)	18.37 kB	904 times
10	Joy To The World Tenor Saxophone (View)	12.53 kB	1619 times
11	Joy To The World Tenor Saxophone (View)	18.36 kB	823 times
12	Joy To The World Percussion (View)	10.6 kB	1218 times
13	Joy To The World Percussion (View)	18.21 kB	639 times
14	Joy To The World Full Score (View)	32.25 kB	2724 times
15	Joy To The World French Horn (View)	11.29 kB	1232 times
16	Joy To The World French Horn (View)	18.37 kB	681 times
17	Joy To The World Flute Oboe (View)	11.24 kB	3339 times
18	Joy To The World Flute Oboe (View)	18.4 kB	1097 times
19	Joy To The World Clarinet (View)	12.65 kB	3212 times
20	Joy To The World Clarinet (View)	18.4 kB	1060 times
21	Joy To The World Bells (View)	11.51 kB	1091 times
22	Joy To The World Bells (View)	18.44 kB	595 times
23	Joy To The World Alto Saxophone (View)	11.34 kB	3306 times
24	Joy To The World Alto Saxophone (View)	18.37 kB	1033 times

The full score below is provided for reference. Individual parts and the lyrics to the song are available for download farther down on the page.

If you cannot see the score, get the Sibelius Scorch plug-in here.

The lyrics (words) to Joy To The World:

Joy to the world, The Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the world, The Saviour reigns
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.