CHRISTMAS TIME IS A WONDERFUL PERIOD TO ENJOY THE MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS.

This year the students have sang the song: Joy to the World.

Joy to the World» is an English hymn and Christmas carol. It was written in 1719 by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts. It is usually sung to the American composer Lowell Mason‘s 1848 arrangement of a tune attributed to George Frideric Handel. The hymn’s lyrics are a Christian interpretation of Psalm 98 and Genesis 3.

Since the 20th century, «Joy to the World» has been the most-published Christmas carol in North America, even though it was not originally associated with Christmas. As of December 2009, it was published in 1,387 hymnals in North America, according to the Dictionary of North American Hymnology.

Here, you are the video.

 

CAROL OF THE BELLS is a beautiful and popular Christmas carol, which is based on the Ukrainian New Year’s song «Shchedryk” The music for the carol comes from the song written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914.