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My Purchased Files| Text: | What Child Is This? |
| Author: | William Chatterton Dix |
| Tune: | GREENSLEEVES |
| Harmonizer: | John Stainer |
110. What Child Is This?
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | What Child is this, who, laid to rest |
| Title: | What Child Is This? |
| Author: | William Chatterton Dix (ca. 1865) |
| Meter: | 8.7.8.7.6.8.6.7 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | GREENSLEEVES |
| Harmonizer: | John Stainer (1871, alt.) |
| Meter: | 8.7.8.7.6.8.6.7 |
| Key: | e minor or modal |
| Source: | Traditional English melody, 16th c. |
| Notes: | This tune may be sung in the original dorian mode by sharping all C's in the melody and alto parts (keeping the bass in measures 3 and 11 unaltered) |
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