2021 Joy To The World

 

Handel Messiah - Lift up your heads, O ye gates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfgTI1lsMQ 

Recorded in Brussels on 12 December, 2014. The Brussels Choral Society and Ensemble Orchestral de Bruxelles are conducted by Eric Delson. Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Luc de Hemptinne. Produced, Directed and Edited by Camera Mobilis.

 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates
Psalm 24:7-10

7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.

8. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.

10. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?

 

The lyrics are based on Psalm 24:7-10.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors,
and the King of Glory shall come in!

Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors,
and the King of Glory shall come in!

Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

 

 

"Comfort ye and Ev'ry valley" from Handel's Messiah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pz9BCMFoP8

Nicholas Sharratt, tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah, recorded live at the Cadogan Hall, London on Sunday, 16th September 2012.

 

Comfort for God’s People

Isaiah 40:1-3

40 Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed,
that her sin has been paid for,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.

3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
the way for the Lord;
make straight in the desert
a highway for our God.

 

Comfort ye, My people & Every valley shall be exalted, hymn with lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlIThmTNg9w 

featuring the remembrance of the birth, the death and the resurrection of our dear Lord Jesus Christ, from Handel Messiah

 

 

Joy To The World

Joy To The World (Live At The Helix In Dublin, Ireland/2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmIddF7DfQ 

 

Joy To The World

Sung by Boney M.

The carol is usually sung to an 1848 arrangement by the American composer Lowell Mason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgaWm2pnNs 

 

 

Musically, the first four notes of "Joy to the World" are the same as the first four in the chorus "Lift up your heads" from Handel's Messiah .

 

Musically, the third line notes  of "Joy to the World" are the same as found in another Messiah piece: the arioso, "Comfort ye".

 

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 earth, 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.

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~Pōhutukawa : New Zealand's Christmas tree~

 

120여년 걸쳐 완성된 크리스마스 캐럴

기쁘다 구주 오셨네. Joy to the World

 

작사가 Isaac Watts ( 1674-1748 )는 Edinburgh 대학에서 신학박사 학위를 받았고, 수많은 찬송가와 캐롤을 썼는데 "Joy to the World"는 1719년에 쓴 시이다.

캐롤은 작곡가 George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)이 1742년에 작곡한 'Messiah '의 일부이다.

1719년 45세의 왙츠는 런던 외곽의 나무 아래서 시편 98편을 바탕으로 "기쁘다 구주 오셨네"의 시를 썼다.

그후 23년이 지난 1742년에 54세의 헨델은 런던에서 2주동안 밤낮으로 하느님을 묵상하며 금식기도를 한 후 45일만에 대작 오라토리오 "메시아" 작곡을 완성하였는데 유명한 '할렐루야' 합창도 이 대작의 일부이다.

 

* 오라토리오’(oratorio)란 성담곡(聖譚曲) 또는 성극(聖劇) 으로 ‘종교적 극음악’을 뜻한다.

 

그후 또 한 세기가 흘러 1848년, 미국의 로웰 메이슨은 왙츠의 시에 헨델의 메시아 일부분이 은근히 잘 어울린다는 느낌을 받아 두 작품을 합쳐보았다. 그리하여 메이슨에 의해 가사장식까지 절묘하게 가미된 "기쁘다 구주 오셨네"가 빛을 보게되었으니 그 완성까지 실로 120여년의 세월이 걸린 역작이라 하겠다.

 

Musically, the first four notes of "Joy to the World" are the same as the first four in the chorus "Lift up your heads" from Handel's Messiah (premiered 1742), and, in the third line, the same as found in another Messiah piece: the arioso, "Comfort ye".

음악적으로 "Joy to the World" 처음 네 음은 헨델의 Messiah (1742 초연)의 "Lift up your heads" 후렴구의 처음 네 음과 동일하며 세번째 줄에서는 다른 Messiah 부분 : arioso, "Comfort ye" 에서 발견되는 음과 같다 .

 

* 아리오소(Arioso)는 '아리아 풍으로' 혹은 '작은 아리아' 라는 뜻으로 노래하듯이 연주하라는 말이다

 

Consequently, and with Mason's attribution to Handel, there has long been speculation over how much a part Handel's Messiah had in "Joy to the World".

결과적으로 헨델에 대한 메이슨의 기여와 함께 헨델의 Messiah 가 "Joy to the World"에 얼마나 많은 역할을 했는지에 대한 오랜 추측은 있어온 터이다.