{"id":1753,"date":"2016-12-04T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:33:37","slug":"joy-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/joy-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: Psalm 98: 4-9\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEnglish hymn writer Isaac Watts, wrote <em>Joy To The World<\/em>. The song was intended to glorify Christ&#39;s triumphant return, rather than a song celebrating his birth. Lowell Mason adapted the song in 1839 from an older melody which may have originated from Handel. Only parts of the tune, called <em>Antioch<\/em>, is attributed to Handel. <em>Joy to the World<\/em> is one of the most-published Christmas hymns in North America.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJohn Rutter, the director of the Cambridge Singers, adapted the song in a pseudo-Handelian arrangement and recorded it twice with The Cambridge Singers, for their Christmas albums, <em>Christmas Star <\/em>(1983) and<em> Christmas with the Cambridge Singers<\/em> (1989).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKW_az2HVfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: Psalm 98: 4-9 English hymn writer Isaac Watts, wrote Joy To The World. The song was intended to glorify Christ&#39;s triumphant return, rather than a song celebrating his birth. Lowell Mason adapted the song in 1839 from an older melody which may have originated from Handel. Only parts of the tune, called Antioch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[543,539,544,540,545,541,542,546],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-antioch","tag-christmas-song","tag-handel","tag-isaac-watts","tag-john-rutter","tag-joy-to-the-world","tag-lowell-mason","tag-the-cambridge-singers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}