What Child Is This?

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lyricist:William Chatterton Dix (in 1865)
composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25608) (order: 955)
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/43599 [info]
Wikidata:Q2606480 [info]
referred to in medleys:What Child Is This? / O Come, O Come Emmanuel / The First Noel / Silent Night, Holy Night (order: 1)
Smooth Jazz Christmas Overture: Let It Snow / Winter Wonderland / What Child Is This (Greensleeves) / Angels We Have Heard on High / Jingle Bells / Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (order: 3)
Christmas Collage (order: 5)
later parody versions:What the Hell Child Is This?
later translated versions:Kas ir šis bērns (Latvian version of English "What Child Is This?")
version of:Greensleeves (generic entry for traditional and unknown arrangements)
is the basis for:Suite on Famous Christmas Carols: II. What Child is This, Who, Laid to Rest
What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
What Child Is This? (for organ, Roper)
has revision:What Child Is This? (Trans-Siberian Orchestra version)
arrangements:The Son of Mary
What Child is This (piano arr. Baldwin)
What Child Is This (Vince Guaraldi adaptation)
What Child Is This (arr. Johnson and Ricketts)
What Child Is This / Dyngyldai (arr. for Béla Fleck & the Flecktones)
What Child Is This? (for Sara Stevens)
What Child Is This? (arr. Parker/Shaw)
What Child Is This? (Jack Jezioro, Brendan Harkin arrangements)
What Child Is This? (arr. Warland)
What Child Is This? (arr. John Fahey)
What Child Is This? (arr. Moya Brennan)
What Child Is This? (arr Bongiorno)
What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) (Sarah McLachlan arrangement)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1962-10-05Medley: What Child Is This? / The Holly and the IvymedleyBing Crosby3:21
1967What Child Is This?instrumentalThe Philadelphia Brass Ensemble1:47
1981-05GreensleevesThe Ambrosian Singers, Jessye Norman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson3:54
1991-06 – 1991-08What Child Is ThiscoverJohnny Cash4:16
1993-07-19 – 1993-07-23What Child Is This?Harry Connick, Jr.3:12
1995-12-23What Child Is Thislive and medleyJosé Carreras, Natalie Cole, Plácido Domingo, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen, Wiener Symphoniker2:21
1995What Child Is This?instrumentalGloriæ Dei Ringers3:28
2001-12-16What Child Is This?liveChildren's Chorus of Washington, Joan Gregoryk2:51
2001 – 2002What Child Is This?Canadian Brass3:07
2002What Child Is ThisinstrumentalThe Ventures3:48
2004-04What Child Is ThisAntti Sarpila Swing Band feat. Johanna Iivanainen3:45
2004What Child Is ThiscoverJag Panzer2:25
2007What Child Is ThisJoni Madden4:40
2008-12 – 2016-12What Child is This?Bach Society of Saint Louis, A. Dennis Sparger4:02
2011What Child Is This?Bad Religion1:53
2013-06-06 – 2013-06-10What Child Is This?Canadian Brass3:25
2021-02-24 – 2021-02-25Wer ist das KindinstrumentalRegina Ederveen4:41
Christmas Medleycover and medleyBrian McKnight3:39
Christmas Medley: What Child Is This? / Do You Hear What I Hear? / Joy to the Worldcover and medleyDonna Summer5:18
Christmas Trilogy: What Child Is This?Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus?:??
Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly / What Child Is This?medleyThe Swingle Singers3:12
Grass Stained GownI_R.J.2:45
Greensleeves (What Child is This?)Peter White feat.Mindi Abair & Rick Braun3:25
Greensleeves (What Child Is This)Peter White4:28
Greensleeves (What Child Is This)instrumentalCaribbean Steel Drum Ensemble2:30
Greensleeves (What Child Is This)The Ray Conniff Singers2:29
Guaraldi Medley: Air Music / Christmas Is Coming / What Child Is This? / O Tannenbauminstrumental and medleyThe David Benoit Trio8:26
Kas ir šis bērns?instrumentalRaimonds Pauls?:??
Mary and the Baby Medley: I. Maria Wanders Through the Thorn / II. What Child Is This? / III. Mary and the BabymedleyChanticleer7:23
O Come Emmanuel (What Child is This)medleyChester Studios4:12
O Tannenbaum Medley: What Child Is This / The First Noel / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / O Come All Ye Faithfulinstrumental and medleyFerrante and Teicher5:04
Overture: Deck the Halls / I Saw Three Ships / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Away in a Manger / What Child Is This? / Carol of the Bells / O Come All Ye Faithfulcover, medley and partialCarpenters4:40
We Will Rock You / What Child Is This?cover and instrumentalCarl Doy3:28
What ChildcoverDennis Sichner5:02
What child is thisAmira Willighagen3:02
What child is thisThe Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Bill Ives1:55
What Child is ThiscoverDavid Young4:11
What Child is ThisAspen Street1:55
What Child is ThisGay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.3:25
What Child is This[unknown]?:??
What Child Is thiscover, instrumental and liveElite884:44
What Child Is ThiscoverGarth Brooks3:27
What Child Is ThisSaint Paul Chamber Orchestra4:16
What Child Is Thiscover and instrumentalDavid Arkenstone4:03
What Child Is ThiscoverJennifer Paige3:47
What Child Is ThisAllison Crowe4:05
What Child Is ThisOxford St. Peter’s Choir2:08
What Child Is ThisGene Autry2:22
What Child Is ThiscoverJohn Denver2:37
What Child Is This[traditional]5:52
What Child Is ThisAntti Sarpila Swing Band feat. Eino Grön3:47
What Child Is ThisSt Peter’s Choir2:10
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalHollywood Tuba 123:48
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalJames Michael Dooley1:36
What Child Is ThisAntti Sarpila Swing Band feat. Johanna Iivanainen3:45
What Child Is ThiscoverLindsey Stirling & Darius Rucker3:31
What Child Is ThisChicago4:41
What Child Is ThiscoverFaith & Harmony4:26
What Child Is Thiscover and instrumentalLindsey Stirling3:37
What Child Is ThiscoverVince Gill3:29
What Child Is ThiscoverDarrell Casey3:09
What Child Is ThisJustin3:29
What Child Is ThisThe Campbell Brothers4:02
What Child Is ThisSheri Easter3:13
What Child Is ThisJoan Baez2:30
What Child Is ThisAriën Vink & Pearl Jozefzoon5:03
What Child Is ThiscoverMitch Miller2:03
What Child Is ThisThe Cambridge Singers, John Rutter2:57
What Child Is Thiscover and instrumentalLindsey Stirling3:19
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalButch Baldassari3:05
What Child Is This[traditional]4:39
What Child Is ThisMahalia Jackson4:10
What Child Is Thiscover[christmas music]3:15
What Child Is ThiscoverDan Drary2:59
What Child Is ThisTanya Tucker4:07
What Child Is ThiscoverMichael W. Smith feat. Martina McBride4:20
What Child Is ThisJoan Baez3:01
What Child Is ThisMahalia Jackson4:07
What Child Is ThisHelene Fischer & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra mit Plácido Domingo3:52
What Child Is ThisPeggy Thomas; Billy Bail Orchestra4:10
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalBilly Bail Orchestra4:10
What Child Is ThisJohnny Mathis3:59
What Child Is ThisAndy Williams4:10
What Child Is ThisTony Bennett4:19
What Child Is ThisAndrea Bocelli feat. Mary J. Blige4:31
What Child Is ThisThe John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis3:10
What Child Is ThiscoverThe Moody Blues2:23
What Child Is ThisAmanda Rheaume3:45
What Child Is ThisJohn Fahey3:02
What Child Is ThiscoverTake Three3:34
What Child Is ThisJessie Galante & Giuseppe Galante2:44
What Child Is Thiscover and instrumentalKurt Bestor3:42
What Child Is ThisJoe Bourne?:??
What Child Is ThiscoverThe Moody Blues2:25
What Child Is Thiscover박준혁3:40
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalJ. Spencer4:24
What Child Is ThiscoverThe Moody Blues2:24
What Child Is ThiscoverConnie Smith?:??
What Child Is ThisAllen Vizzutti4:33
What Child Is ThisinstrumentalMaggie Sansone2:11
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