Guilmant -- Christmas music arranged for band

[Lyle Neff]

From what I just posted as my Facebook status:

For those of you who might like to hear some UN-familiar Christmas tunes, here's an audio Christmas present for y'all. It's a MIDI performance of a transcription I made a few years ago of the "Offertory on Three Noels" (for organ), by Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), from the "Livre de Noëls," Op.60.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ieawywy2m2n

This arrangement was performed once by the volunteer Christmas band at the last church where I served as organist. The instruments in the arrangement are as follows: flute, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, 2 Bb trumpets, trombone, baritone, tuba, glockenspiel, triangle, and optional organ (this recording opts for the organ pedals in order to beef up the bass line a bit -- for some reason the MIDI tuba drops out at times).

You can see a PDF of Guilmant's original organ score at http://imslp.org/wiki/Livre_de_No%C3%AB ... exandre%29; click on the link for "3 Livre de Noëls"; the piece begins on p. 5. (I may upload my arrangement to that web page later.)