{"id":306,"date":"2019-12-24T02:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:41:36","slug":"joy-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/joy-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music: George Frederic Handel<br>Lyrics: Isaac Watts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening phrase of this Christmas hymn is a descending Major scale.  In other words, it is the do-re-mi scale backwards.  The duration of notes in this phrase vary.  But if you were to play these notes more evenly, you would easily hear this Major scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have included two related posts for Joy To The World, one for guitar and one for ukulele, and both in the key of C.  That means if you have a friend or family member who plays ukulele, you can play a duet of Joy To The World.  One person can play the melody and the other the chords.  You can repeat a second verse and switch who plays the chord and melody parts.  Your duet could also be two guitars or two ukuleles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2>Related posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/joy-to-the-world-guitar-melody-key-of-c\/\">Joy To The World: Guitar melody, key of C<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/joy-to-the-world-ukulele-melody-key-of-c\/\">Joy To The World: Ukulele melody, key of C<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music: George Frederic HandelLyrics: Isaac Watts The opening phrase of this Christmas hymn is a descending Major scale. In other words, it is the do-re-mi scale backwards. The duration of notes in this phrase vary. But if you were to play these notes more evenly, you would easily hear this Major scale. I have included &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/joy-to-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joy To The World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[12,66,120,19,74],"tags":[76,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}