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What Child Is This? - arr. Paul Halley
 Publication Details
 

  
  Catalogue Number -
 PEL2038 SATB

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB Choir with
Organ accompaniment

Level of Difficulty - Moderate to Difficult

 Uses/Season -
Christmas Concert, Service Anthem		 Duration -
 3:30 mins

Pages Music -
9 pages - 16 page booklet		 Format -
 SATB/organ choral octavo

Copyright Year - 2001

 Perusal Score PDF
SATB perusal - page 1-2 of 9		  
 
Description/Remarks

 PEL2038 What Child Is This? was arranged by Paul Halley for his semi-professional choral ensemble, Gaudeamus, in 2001 for the Christmas Angelicus concert series. The traditional English melody and William Chatterton Dix’s familiar text are presented in a fresh and dazzling new arrangement, with harmonies that are unmistakably jazz-inspired. The effect is rich and majestic, with an ethereal ending.
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 "Halley’s own arrangements are pleasingly inventive." - Gramophone Magazine

"I am particularly thrilled with the arrangements of What Child Is This, Angelus Ad Virginem and Watts’ Cradle Hymn." -  Richard Gladwell, With Heart and Voice, NPR



Youtube video of this music on our channel: Pelagosmusic & Paul Halley
"What Child Is This?" from the recording 'What Child Is This?'

 

   Sound Clip ◙♫
from What Child Is This? CD
Full track below at left

Recording
 What Child Is This?CD
PEL1005 - Track 1
PEL1005 CD 
available in compact disc or digital format
 
 
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  Text

What Child Is This?

William Chatterton Dix, c. 1865

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? 
 

Refrain:
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
Haste, haste to bring him laud,
The babe, the son of Mary.
 

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

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

                                                   














from A King's Christmas 2014
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