Christmas
What Star Is This?
- Words:
- Charles Coffin (1676-1749), 1736; Tr. The Right Rev. John Chandler (1806-1876), 1837
- Music:
- Edwin George Monk (1819-1900), 1872
Sheet music
What star is this, with beams so bright…
In the hymnals
- Written in 1736, the words are in 101 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.