This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:
https://librivox.org/stories-of-siegfried-told-to-the-children-by-mary-esther-miller-macgregor/
Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure of both tiny dwarf and stalwart mortal.
Some of these adventures will fill this little book, and already I can see you sitting in the nursery as you read them.
The door is opened but you do not look up. 'Denis! Denis!' You are called, but you do not hear, for you are not really in the nursery any longer.
You have wandered away to Nibelheim, the home of the strange little people of whom you are reading, and you have ears only for the harsh voices of the tiny Nibelungs, eyes only for their odd, wrinkled faces.
Siegfried is the merry hero of the Nibelungenlied. I wonder will you think him as brave as French Roland or as chivalrous as your English favourite, Guy of Warwick? Yet even should you think the German hero brave and chivalrous as these, I can hardly believe you will read and re-read this little book as often as you read and re-read the volumes which told you about your French and English heroes.—Yours affectionately,
MARY MACGREGOR
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26181
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales; Fantastic Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Keywords that describe the book: adventure, siegfried, heroic, nibelung, germanic myth
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [number] of Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children, by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children, by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording. - Example filename storiesofsiegfried_##_macgregor_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. storiesofsiegfried_01_macgregor_128kb.mp3)
- Example ID3 V2 tags ID3 tags will be added automatically during cataloging.
Artist: Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
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Your flow, annunciation, diction, and tone have a positive and comforting energy. Everything is as it should be, for the first 3 sections that are uploaded: Introduction Ch 1 & 2, including the required information. 