COMPLETE The Modern Scottish Minstrel by Charles Rogers -ck

[Chairlie]

The Modern Scottish Minstrel Vol. 1 by Charles Rogers (1825 - 1890) .

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on the catalog page for this project: https://librivox.org/the-modern-scottish-minstrel-by-charles-rogers/

Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards." (Summary by Chairlie)

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[Carolin]

hi chairlie, i can mc this for you.

ill go make us a magic window..

[Carolin]

done! let me know if you need more sections than this.

i will send you a password for the magic window right away.

i see that a bunch of the poems could also be sung. you can read them or sing them to the prescribed tune, both is great. just please dont use background music unless you feel you absolutely need to, and check back with me about the source you will use beforehand

i think that we only need a dpl now

[fink]

Hi,
I`d really love to DPL this project.
Please
Joseph

[Chairlie]

Hooray! Carolin!
And hooray for magic windows : )

I have a couple of questions now, but may have some more later when I begin to understand how this works ...
1.) I put 29 in the # of sections list because there were 29 authors, but unfortunately each author has a very different length section attributed to him, so I'm not quite sure how to divide this up ... Should I perhaps just read for half an hour and call that the end of a section? (provided of course that it makes logical sense).
2.) Do I need to read out the table of contents and/or the glossary at the end?

That's it for now, I think.
More later : )
Chairlie

[Carolin]

hi chairlie,

you can divide up the number of sections as you like. we only limit you with a 72 minute file length, because that is about as much as you can burn on an audio cd and we would like to keep that possibility open for our listeners.
i scanned the text and i think that the poems are long enough to be in separate sections, if you like. then you will need a bunch more sections. otherwise you can also group some poems together into a section. it is really up to you

secondly, no need to read the table of contents and the glossary. both are usually not much use to a listener of an audio book

let me know if you need anything else or if anything is unclear

[Chairlie]

Hi Joseph : )
I am assuming that it is Carolin who manages this, but if for some reason it is me (I still have a bit to learn about solo projects) then please by all means! You certainly sound sufficiently enthusiastic and not at all like a fink.
All the best,
Chairlie

[Chairlie]

Hey Carolin,
Thanks for the answers on my questions ... your prize is ... more questions!

1.) I'm not quite sure how to incorporate the footnotes, as they often occur in the middle of a verse/song. Do I have to interrupt the poem every time, or can I record the footnotes at the end of each?
2.) I haven't yet decided about singing some vs. speaking, but if I do sing some, is it ok to pick and choose which ones, or ought it to be all or nothing?
3.) Also, I thought it might be worthwhile to read the frontispiece before the preface - sound ok?

Thx
Chairlie, (the gradually less befuddled.)

[Carolin]

hi chairlie,

please, ask me everything that seems unclear. i am glad to help
i give the dpl magic window access, but it is your project, so i waited until you answered. joseph is now on board - welcome to this project!

answering your questions:

1. footnotes are tricky. if you read them at the end of the poem, they might not make sense. if you read them in the middle of the poem, the metric is gone. there is often no right way to do it. if you want, you can leave them out altogether (or select which ones you want to read). try out the different options and pick the one that you feel most comfortable with.
2. you can choose each time. if you sing, please stick to the prescribed tune, as we can be sure it is public domain (tunes can be copyrighted too).
3. if you want, feel free to read the frontispiece. i see there is some extra info in it, and it will fit well with the preface. so no problem.

the first solo is a bit of a challenge, most of us struggle a bit with how to do it best, but ultimately, you learn by doing. so feel free to plunge in, and ask all questions that occur to you along the way

[Chairlie]

Ok ... here's the preface

Time: 9:30
Space: 9.1MB


http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ck/modernscottishminstrelvol1_00_rogers.mp3

[Carolin]

great, lets move over to going solo

[fink]

Preface PL OK!
That was the easy one
Joseph

[Chairlie]

Hooray : )
Here's Section 1 then ...

Time: 25:05
Space: 24.1MB

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ck/modernscottishminstrel_01_rogers.mp3

Chairlie

[Chairlie]

Hey Carolin,
Just wondering about music copyright and how to know when a piece is copyrighted or not?
I was thinking of singing this one in the next section, and have found the music here:

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=thesession.org/tunes/9768.no-ext/0001

Does this look ok?
Thx
Chairlie

[fink]

Hi Charlie,here the PL for Section 1.

8:05
"What signifies 't for folks to chide" - a wee stumble here

22:16
Text - I left the girl, and tuned my pipe
You say - I left the girl, and turned my pipe.

Apart from the above a wonderful reading and a pleasure to listen to
Joseph