What Child Is This? by Burl Ives Song Details

"What Child Is This?" by Burl Ives had its release date on November 1, 1952. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:06. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 3 out of 12 in Christmas Day In The Morning - Expanded Edition by Burl Ives. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. What Child Is This? is not that popular right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of What Child Is This? by Burl Ives is Adagio (slowly with great expression), since this song has a tempo of 76 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 5/4.

Music Key

B♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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