(Complete) Stories of Symphonic Music by Lawrence Gilman - lt

[Lynnet]

Hi there everyone!

My name is Matt and I’m new here!

Would it be okay if I started with Wagner (35) and then pick up a few more from there? (I’ve actually sung in a few of his operas!)

Cheers!

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[bicko19]

Hi Lynne,

Here is the link to the thread of my one minute test: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=70211

Thanks!
Matt.

[Lynnet]

Managed to listen to sections 00 and 01

Very interesting, and clearly read.
I always knew it: "Music was then, as has been aptly said, a species of 'sensuous mathematics.'"
I love that little smile in your voice

Section 00:

5:12 stumbled over "Eclogue of _S._ Mallarmé", there's a little snake in there

I guess you omitted the subtitle on purpose?

Section 01

I noted it PL ok, as listening level is standard. If I wouldn't read along in order to see if the text is complete, I probably wouldn't even have noticed. But as I noticed, I write the two little things I found down; please tell me if you change them so that I can spot-check:

7:18 I hear "to wait in the telling of a story" ?
10:30 missing "fervid" (Franz Liszt, a man of fervid imagination)

00 corrected.
I left 01 as is.

[moniaqua]

00 corrected.
I left 01 as is.

Ok, thank you

I updated the MW.

Section 02 is also supremely interesting and very well read again. I especially liked the last "ah, for Adonis"

There is only one "chapter two" to much; I hear it at the beginning and the end of the Title after the disclaimer:
"Chapter two - Stories of Symphonic Music, by Lawrence Gilman. - Chapter two".

I think I have to go and find Bantoks Witch of Atlas now...

[laurencetrask]

Hello, may I have sections 32,33, and 34 please?

Laurence

[Lynnet]

Hello, may I have sections 32,33, and 34 please?

Laurence

You may!

[moniaqua]

I listened to another interesting chapter, number 07.

The notes:

• subtitle missing "(Gustave Charpentier: born in Dieuze, France, June 25, 1860; now living in Paris)"

• 0:58 I hear andiantio, written is andantino

• 4:26 I hear vo -- kiferously, it sounds like two words

I am just wondering about the footnotes you read so bravely and clearly marked off the text; as the first post states

Footnotes: Please ignore footnotes with simple references;

- what is a simple reference in this context? Lynnet?

[Lynnet]

Footnotes: Please ignore footnotes with simple references;

- what is a simple reference in this context? Lynnet?

In general, I don't like footnotes (I don't read them myself). I do accept sometimes they include interesting facts that people may want to include (in which case why didn't the author think they were interesting enough to include in the main text? )
A 'simple footnote' would be a reference e.g. "See page 36"; "As Mr. Smith says in his thesis on page 2"... they have no use for the listener IMHO.

[moniaqua]

A 'simple footnote' would be a reference e.g. "See page 36"; "As Mr. Smith says in his thesis on page 2"... they have no use for the listener IMHO.

Ok, so "The work has no opus number" also would be rather simple, right?

@lmnei, please let me know whether you cut out those kind of footnotes or left them in when editing your files, thank you I apologize that I had overseen that in the beginning.

[Lynnet]

A 'simple footnote' would be a reference e.g. "See page 36"; "As Mr. Smith says in his thesis on page 2"... they have no use for the listener IMHO.

Ok, so "The work has no opus number" also would be rather simple, right?

@lmnei, please let me know whether you cut out those kind of footnotes or left them in when editing your files, thank you I apologize that I had overseen that in the beginning.

I wouldn't include it... but I'm not going to have a meltdown if it's there

[WilkieMills]

May I read chapters 3 and 4 please? (Beethoven and Berlioz respectively)

Thanks,
Wilkiemills

[Lynnet]

May I read chapters 3 and 4 please? (Beethoven and Berlioz respectively)

Thanks,
Wilkiemills

Thank you for claiming

[schrm]

hi,

i will try to read chapter 36 - wolf

thank you and cheers,
schrm

[Lynnet]

hi,

i will try to read chapter 36 - wolf

thank you and cheers,
schrm

Go for it!

[Lmnei]

A 'simple footnote' would be a reference e.g. "See page 36"; "As Mr. Smith says in his thesis on page 2"... they have no use for the listener IMHO.

Ok, so "The work has no opus number" also would be rather simple, right?

@lmnei, please let me know whether you cut out those kind of footnotes or left them in when editing your files, thank you I apologize that I had overseen that in the beginning.

I wouldn't include it... but I'm not going to have a meltdown if it's there

For the sections that I have recorded I will leave in the footnotes that I already recorded. For the recordings going forward I will only record the "interesting" footnotes.

Lynda