What Child Is This?

(Anonymous)

Beautiful Christmas sheet music (Intermediate)!

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Includes : One solo score (2 pages)

Difficulty level : Grade 5/12

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

Words : William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898), 1865.

Music : Greensleeves, 16th century English melody.

Source : Rev. Henry Ramsden Bramley and Sir John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old (London : Novello, Ewer & Co., 1871), carol no. 14.

This score is an arrangement of the Christmas hymn What Child Is This? for intermediate-level piano or organ (manuals only).

It is set in the key of E minor.

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.

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Christmas Sheet Music for Piano (Intermediate)

Sheet music details :

WHAT CHILD IS THIS?

(Greensleeves)
Composer :	(Anonymous)	Opus/catalog number :
Movements :	Christmas Hymn - Carol	Composition/First publication :	16th Century
Instrumentation :	Piano	Style :	Renaissance (1453-1600)
Key :	E minor	Duration :	00:40 per verse
Edition :	Edited by M.A. Caux	Difficulty :	Grade 5/12

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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!