"NOELS"

     French musicians in the baroque era published a great many
arrangements of earlier traditional folk no‰ls, or Christmas songs.
This sequence is a medley of two such arranged by Nicolas Ch‚deville 
(1696 - 176?).  The first is "A minuit fut fait un r‚veil", which has
the rhythms of a Renaissance dance, and the second is "Bon Joseph
‚coute moi".  So in keeping with the folk roots, I did a kind of
country French arrangement behind Ch‚deville's baroque duets.

     I did this MIDI arrangement using Cakewalk and Power Tracks Pro 
with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite soundcard.  

     NOTE:  for those with a soundcard using the Yamaha OPL4 synth chip:
the overall volume will sound very low.  This is because Yamaha designed
the "expression" controller #11 backwards, with 127 being loudest and 0
being quiet ... this is exactly opposite how it works for everybody else.
The quickest fix here is to MUTE OR DELETE the "Mixer Track", which will 
wipe out any references to controller #11.  Else, you can edit the values 
in this track to achieve the desired balance of instrument volumes.

     This sequence uses the default pitch bend range, so it should be
playable even on the old SoundBlaster16 cards and clones ... though
of course it's so much nicer on a wavetable card with effects!

                                                  John Kwasnik
                                                  jkwasnik@jps.net