thumb|Joy to the World Joy to the World er en engelsk julesang (christmas carol).
Teksten er skrevet af den engelske salmedigter Isaac Watts. Teksten blev publiceret første gang i 1719 i Watts' samling The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship.
Lowell Mason satte musik til teksten i 1839. Masons musik bygger på en melodi, som tidligere blev tilskrevet Händel, da flere takter ligner musikken i Händels oratorium Messias (forspillet til Comfort Ye samt indledningen til korsatserne Lift up your heads og Glory to God), men Händel er dog ikke ophavsmand til "Joy to the World".FAQs Did Handel compose Christmas carols? Citat: "Joy to the World was not composed by Handel. The tune first appeared in the early 1830's in English tune-books. William Holford revised the tune and published it (which he called Comfort) in the mid-1830's and attributed it to Handel because of the tunes' resemblance to the opening phrases of the choruses Lift Up Your Heads and Glory to God from Messiah. The American composer Lowell Mason (1792-1872) in 1839 retained the attribution to Handel, changed the tune-name to Antioch, and united it with Isaac Watt's hymn [i.e., text] for the first time. Thus, Joy to the World was born."
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