COMPLETE: Short Poetry Collection 021 - PO/ll

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 27th, 2007, 7:24 am

The catalog page for this project is here: http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-021/

LibriVox Short Poetry Collection 021

This is an open collection: you may submit any recording of a public domain poem without claiming it first. This collection is for poems less than five minutes in length and will consist of 20 poems. When this collection is full, another one will be begun.

To see what has been recorded already, you can search the LibriVox Database by author or title, or browse by poetry - but remember that we welcome multiple versions!

Bartleby is a great resource for public-domain poetry. Another source to try is Poets' Corner.

Recording Information
At the beginning, read the abbreviated "librivox disclaimer":
"[Poem title], by [author], read for LibriVox.org by [your name]" or some variation on that, adding date, location, your personal url, if you wish.

At the End say: "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain" and leave a few seconds of silence.

If you are new, please check the Recording Notes thread before recording:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430
If this is your first recording, you'll also find this useful:
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/NewbieGuideToRecording

Technical Details
Please be sure that your recording software is set to the following technical specifications:
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44100 kHzs

Save your recording as an mp3 file using the following filename and ID3 tag format:

File name all in lowercase: [poem's title]_[author's last name]_[your initials].mp3
(e.g. raven_poe_apc.mp3)

ID3 tags (version 2):

Title: Poem Title (e.g. The Raven)
Artist: Author Name (e.g. Edgar Allan Poe)
Album: LibriVox Short Poetry 021
Genre: Speech
(You can put "Recorded by ...." in the Comments section if you wish)

What To Do With Your Recording
Please post a link to your completed files here in the thread. If you don't have server space, use one of the following free file transfer services:

MediaFire
GigaSize
YouSendIt (send to yourself or to me at ac DOT timshel AT gmail DOT com - please post the link)

When you post your link, please also include the following information:

a link to the source of the poem (Gutenberg, Bartleby, Poets' Corner, etc.) so that I can verify it is in the public domain
if this is your first recording, your name as you would like it credited on the catalog page and any URL you wish your name to link to

(BC admin link)

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 27th, 2007, 7:44 am

katyleah wrote:O Lord, Thy Wing Outspread by William John Blew

Read from,
http://www.bartleby.com/246/353.html

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 27th, 2007, 7:46 am

Cloud Mountain wrote:Another Anne Bradstreet, probably for Short Poetry Collection 021
"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666"

SOUND FILE
TEXT FILE
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Justin Brett · Post by **Justin Brett** » January 27th, 2007, 9:06 am

Here is 'As you came from the holy land' by Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh, if you prefer!) He has been dead nearly 400 years, so the text ought to be PD, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere from the net.

Anyway, see if you like it!

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

Justin

PS: I have found an online text here: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-you-came-from-the-holy-land-2/ but I'm not sure if it's PD or not, and I don't like some of the readings in it!

rootpi · Post by **rootpi** » January 27th, 2007, 4:45 pm

"Written on the Top of Ben Nevis" by John Keats:
http://download.yousendit.com/719E71A913A6AF62
runtime 01:19

text here:
http://www.john-keats.com/gedichte/sonnet_written_on_the.htm

-julian

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » January 27th, 2007, 10:45 pm

'Hope no one minds me sneaking in here to post a call for submissions to the Long Poems Collection.

Long Poems Collection 004 has been sitting lonesome and incomplete for two months now and
would love to grow to great (long) heights! Long Poem Collections are for poetry readings of a length
5 minutes or longer. If you feel like being creative, find a long poem and get a-goin'!

Looking forward to "hearing" from you!

—Alan

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 28th, 2007, 8:49 am

Justin Brett wrote:Here is 'As you came from the holy land' by Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh, if you prefer!) He has been dead nearly 400 years, so the text ought to be PD, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere from the net.

Anyway, see if you like it!

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

Justin

PS: I have found an online text here: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-you-came-from-the-holy-land-2/ but I'm not sure if it's PD or not, and I don't like some of the readings in it!

Very nice reading Justin! One little thing: your Audio Sample Rate is set to 32 khz, it should be 44 khz. I'll fix it for this one but you should check your recording settings for next time.

As for the source, this is a curious one! I found it here on Bartleby but credited as Anonymous:
http://www.bartleby.com/101/26.html
And then it is here on Luminarium credited to Ralegh but with a different title:
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/holyland.htm

In any case, the latter is cited as being published in a book in 1895 so I'll use that as the source.

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 28th, 2007, 9:11 am

rootpi wrote:"Written on the Top of Ben Nevis" by John Keats:
http://download.yousendit.com/719E71A913A6AF62
runtime 01:19

text here:
http://www.john-keats.com/gedichte/sonnet_written_on_the.htm

-julian

Got it Julian, thanks!

tahbepet · Post by **tahbepet** » January 28th, 2007, 11:09 am

Two tonight:

The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww205.html
Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?ezjygy2ynme

Youth and Age, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/101/552.html
Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?1on2mwug2ym

Enjoy!

Beth

Justin Brett · Post by **Justin Brett** » January 28th, 2007, 11:19 am

LibraryLady wrote: Very nice reading Justin! One little thing: your Audio Sample Rate is set to 32 khz, it should be 44 khz. I'll fix it for this one but you should check your recording settings for next time.

Oops. Sorry about that. Settings now changed on Audacity. Not sure what else I recorded at that rate, or if it will be a problem. Never mind...

Thanks for the research, by the way. I've loved the poem ever since I heard someone it singing at a folk session to a tune they had composed themselves.

Justin

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 29th, 2007, 9:05 pm

tahbepet wrote:Two tonight:

The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww205.html
Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?ezjygy2ynme

Youth and Age, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/101/552.html
Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?1on2mwug2ym

Enjoy!
Beth

Lovely Beth! Don't forget to put the ID3 tags in next time.

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 29th, 2007, 9:06 pm

Justin Brett wrote:
LibraryLady wrote: Very nice reading Justin! One little thing: your Audio Sample Rate is set to 32 khz, it should be 44 khz. I'll fix it for this one but you should check your recording settings for next time.
Oops. Sorry about that. Settings now changed on Audacity. Not sure what else I recorded at that rate, or if it will be a problem. Never mind...

No problem, Justin. If anything else was recorded at that rate, the MC will catch it and fix it eventually.

Dedalus · Post by **Dedalus** » January 30th, 2007, 5:01 am

Just trying to get a reply posted.

Peter

Dedalus · Post by **Dedalus** » January 30th, 2007, 5:04 am

Hello!

Here's my recording of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by Wordsworth:

http://pabvox.googlepages.com/composed_upon_Westminster_Bridge_Wor.mp3

Here's a link to the text:

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww206.html

This is my first attempt, so please let me know if there's anything wrong with my reading, recording, or submitting.

Thanks!

Peter

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 30th, 2007, 7:04 am

Dedalus wrote:Hello!

Here's my recording of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by Wordsworth:

http://pabvox.googlepages.com/composed_upon_Westminster_Bridge_Wor.mp3

Here's a link to the text:

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww206.html

This is my first attempt, so please let me know if there's anything wrong with my reading, recording, or submitting.

Thanks!

Peter

Yea, so glad to see you got the posting figured out!

Your recording is great and that's the most important thing. The filename should be all in lowercase and include words from the title, the author's last name in full, and your initials, like so:

composed_upon_westminster_bridge_wordsworth_pb.mp3

The volume was also quite low and I amplified it so it is more easily audible. You may want to check your recording volume settings in your control panel before you record again.

But these are little things, really, in the grand scheme of recording.