For almost two thousand years, Christians have used music ... minister Isaac Watts (1674-1748) began a transformation of congregational singing. Watts believed strongly that hymns should express ...

This is one of the most popular modern religious songs from the folk revival ... This well-known hymn by Isaac Watts paraphrases Psalm 90, telling how our God is everlasting and will be our ...

Frieich Wiesner of Old Time Music wrote last month that the ... Written by prolific 18th century hymn writer and clergyman ...

In the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a marble mural monument to non-conformist minister and hymn writer Isaac Watts. It shows a relief of Dr Watts seated in his study, with an angel ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 ... Mason routinely gave credit to other composers for his own hymn tunes, and described the music of “Joy to the World” as being “after G.

Vernacular hymns arise early in the Reformation and are given fixed ... Hymnody flourished in the 18th C with notable hymnists such as Charles and John Wesley, Isaac Watts, William Cowper, John Newton ...

Perhaps no hymn characterizes the mood of Christmas Day more than Isaac Watts’ “Joy to the World.” You can almost hear the organ pipes and trumpet blast their clear call joy as ...