This document contains links to free sheet music files and lyrics for vocal and instrumental melody arrangements of 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 . 

Please note that all of the music arranged below is provided as solo PDF or music notation format files (either Sibelius or Finale).  These song arrangements are intended for beginners and the music arranged accordingly.  It should be playable by most musicians within the first year or two of their instruction.  The files do not specifically include piano parts, however beginning pianists can have great success playing the music of one of the other instruments such as the flute or clarinet parts.

Joy To The World

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1	JoyToTheWorld	20.76 KB	3462 times
2	Joy To The World Voice	12.16 KB	3639 times
3	Joy To The World Voice	18.9 KB	2168 times
4	Joy To The World Tuba	11.37 KB	3055 times
5	Joy To The World Tuba	18.41 KB	2813 times
6	Joy To The World Trumpet	12.65 KB	4119 times
7	Joy To The World Trumpet	18.4 KB	2976 times
8	Joy To The World Trombone	11.13 KB	5068 times
9	Joy To The World Trombone	18.37 KB	2936 times
10	Joy To The World Percussion	10.6 KB	3205 times
11	Joy To The World Percussion	18.21 KB	2986 times
12	Joy To The World Full Score	32.25 KB	3976 times
13	Joy To The World French Horn	11.29 KB	3020 times
14	Joy To The World French Horn	18.37 KB	2799 times
15	Joy To The World Flute Oboe	11.24 KB	3531 times
16	Joy To The World Flute Oboe	18.4 KB	2978 times
17	Joy To The World Clarinet	12.65 KB	8359 times
18	Joy To The World Clarinet	18.4 KB	2933 times
19	Joy To The World Bells	11.51 KB	3055 times
20	Joy To The World Bells	18.44 KB	3073 times
21	Joy To The World Alto Saxophone	11.34 KB	3867 times
22	Joy To The World Alto Saxophone	18.37 KB	2968 times

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.