What Child Is This?

(Anonymous)

The Christmas carol What Child Is This arranged for violin (Intermediate)!

Pdf sheet music download for Violin and piano

This sheet music is available for :

Includes : One score and one part (2 pages)

Difficulty level : Grade 4/12

Details     Listen          Lyrics     Christmas

Program Notes on What Child Is This? by (Anonymous) :

This score is an arrangement of the Christmas hymn What Child Is This? for violin with piano accompaniment.

It is set in the key of E minor.

The violin part is to be played in the first and third positions.

For your greater enjoyment, this sheet music includes the complete lyrics in English (three verses and chorus).

Sources :

Anonymous composer, Greensleeves, 16th century English Renaissance song.

Broadside ballad entitled : A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves. London Stationer's Company (1580)
A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves, in A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584)

The Greensleeves melody is found in several late 16th century and early 17th century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various other manuscripts.

Frequently bought together :

♥ Ave Maria - Meditation Gounod - Violin and piano - Grade 6 /12 Gounod's beautiful Ave Maria for violin (Intermediate)!	♥ Concerto in B minor, Op. 35 (3/3) Rieding - Violin and piano - Grade 4 /12 The lively third movement of Rieding's Concerto Opus 35 (Intermediate)!
♥ Concerto RV 297, Op. 8, No. 4 L'inverno (II : Largo) -- Urtext Vivaldi - Violin and piano - Grade 5 /12 The famous second movement of Vivaldi's Winter concerto from the Four Seasons!	Concerto in G Major, Op. 34 (I : Allegro moderato) Rieding - Violin and piano - Grade 4 /12 The opening movement of Rieding's Concerto Op. 34 (Intermediate)!
♥ Concerto in B minor, Op. 35 (1/3) Rieding - Violin and piano - Grade 4 /12 The first movement of Rieding's famous Concerto in B minor for young violinists!	♥ Concertino in A minor, Op. 21 (in Hungarian Style) Rieding - Violin and piano - Grade 7 /12 One of Rieding's best known violin concertinos (Intermediate)!

Associated collections :

Christmas Music for Violin (Intermediate)

Sheet music details :

WHAT CHILD IS THIS?

(Greensleeves)
Composer :	(Anonymous)	Opus/catalog number :
Movements :	Moderato	Composition/First publication :	16th Century
Instrumentation :	Violin and piano	Style :	Renaissance (1453-1600)
Key :	E minor	Duration :	00:40 per verse
Edition :	Arranged by M.A. Caux	Difficulty :	Grade 4/12

Look for similar sheet music by category :

Composers → (Anonymous) → Greensleeves

Styles → Renaissance (1453-1600)

Instruments → Violin

What Child Is This?

1. What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary's lap, is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing :
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

2. Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear : for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.

Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,
The Cross be borne for me, for you :
Hail, hail the Word made Flesh,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

3. So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,
Come peasant, king, to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

Raise, raise the song on high,
The Virgin sings her lullaby :
Joy, joy for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!