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How Christmas carols were born from Watts to Mason
The article traces the origins of Joy to the World and other Christmas carols from Isaac Watts as the Father of Hymnody through Lowell Mason who added the familiar tune in Medfield Massachusetts around 1870. It notes influences from Handel, Luther, Wesley, and Bach and previews next item on O Little Town of Bethlehem.
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Isaac Watts
Masachusetts
Europe
Calvin
England
Watts
Independent Church
Isaac
Hig
Southampton
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Sir Thomas and
Lady Abney
London
Lowell Mason
Medfield
Mass
Handel
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
America
Georgia
Charles
Wesley
Christ
W. H. Cummings
Waltham Abbey
Mendelssohn
Luther
Martin Luther
Pennsylvania
Germany
Coleridge
Bach
Paul
Adolphe ‘ Adam
Adam
Town of
Bethlehem