What Child Is This

Traditional (English)

For clarinet and piano

Written in E minor, range B3 to D5

A Christmas carol that asks a quiet question by the manger: who is this child asleep on Mary’s lap, greeted by angels while the shepherds keep watch? It is sung to Greensleeves, an English tune from the 1500s; the story that Henry VIII wrote it is almost certainly a legend.

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