What Child Is This?: notes for 6 instruments
“What Child is this who, laid to rest…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · F majorD4–F5 Harder
- RecorderLetters · F majorD4–F5 Harder
- FluteLetters · C majorA4–C6 Harder
- ClarinetLetters · G major (written)E3–G4 Harder
- TrumpetValves · E♭ major (written)C4–E♭5 Harder
- Alto SaxLetters · F major (written)D4–F5 Harder
Not on kalimba, violin, bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
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.
About this song
- Melody
- Tune GREENSLEEVES, Traditional English, 1600
- Words
- William Chatterton Dix (1837–1898), 1865 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
- Public domain
- Melody 1600, words 1865: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys