What Child Is This? — All Piano Arrangements and Lead Sheets

Easy piano arrangements

• Easy Piano Arrangement No. 1

Intermediate piano arrangements

• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 1
• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 2
• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 3
• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 4
• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 5
• Intermediate Piano Arrangement No. 6

Advanced piano arrangements

• Advanced Piano Arrangement No. 1
• Advanced Piano Arrangement No. 2

Lead sheets in 7 keys

Choose a key — 7 available

• A minor
• B minor
• C minor
• D minor
• E minor
• F♯ minor
• G minor

Christmas words and the melody of Greensleeves

What Child Is This? pairs words by William Chatterton Dix with GREENSLEEVES, an English melody whose history reaches back to the sixteenth century. The Christmas text asks listeners to contemplate the child in the Nativity scene, surrounded by Mary, shepherds, and angels. It gives an older tune a distinct place in Christian seasonal music. Discipleship Ministries’ history of the carol.

One melody with more than one identity

Listeners may know the tune as either Greensleeves or What Child Is This?, depending on the setting in which they encounter it. That shared melody links secular musical tradition with Christmas worship. In a piano arrangement, its identity can suggest both histories, bringing an immediately familiar sound to a seasonal program.

More Christmas sheet music on RTV

Explore Christmas Lead Sheets in Different Keys or browse Christmas Hymns from the Hymnal.