For your next Xmas arrangement full of MIDI goodness, I present God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (string quartet). The piece has always had a sort of Baroque-ish sound to it in my mind, so I played with layering the voices in ways that sound almost fugue-like (but totally aren’t) and with augmenting the melody through rhythmic interplay. There are basically 4 1/2 - 5 variations on the theme in this one arrangement which you should be able to pick out with no problem. The second variation has a crazy part where three voices are each doing a patterned rhythm through the chords (two in a triple meter-style, the third in a duple style). The third variation is basically an experiment in Rounds, like Row Your Boat only with Gentlemen. See what you think. The rest of the variations stretch and condense the harmonies before bringing it back to the original arrangement. YAY Xmas Arrangement Request # 2:

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (string quartet)