COMPLETE:Weekly Poetry:Prologue Canterbury Tales-PO/kh

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 14th, 2007, 11:49 pm

This project is now complete and can be found here: http://librivox.org/prologue-to-the-canterbury-tales-lines-1-18-by-geoffrey-chaucer/

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales - Lines 1-18
by Geoffrey Chaucer

Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many Librivox volunteers as possible!

This week's poem can be found here

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

Have questions on "how"?
Check LV's 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

Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales - Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer, read for LibriVox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, your location, and/or your personal url.]

Then read the poem:

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.

At the end of your reading, leave a space and then say:

End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.

Please leave a few seconds of silence at the end of your recording.

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

File name - all in lowercase:canterbury_prologue_chaucer_[your initials].mp3

ID-3 tags:
Title: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales - Read by [YOUR INITIALS]
Artist: Geoffrey Chaucer
Album: LibriVox Weekly Poetry
Comments: (optional) Recorded by [your name]

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If you wish to contribute, please have your readings submitted by 0500 GMT Sunday, July 22 (12:00am ET)

(And remember, anyone can suggest a poem for a certain week and/or coordinate an upcoming weekly poem! If you'd like to suggest a poem or coordinate a future Weekly Poetry project, please visit this thread.)

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kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 15th, 2007, 1:12 am

Here is a recording of what it should roughly sound like. I think. (I make no claims to have any idea what I'm actually doing here. I learned this a long time ago from a recording and I'm sure there is some variation on how people think it should be pronounced.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?2qmlwolzd9k

metoikos · Post by **metoikos** » July 15th, 2007, 12:07 pm

Here you go. My very rusty college Middle English served me well, but it was still a bit of a struggle.

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099893476/canterbury_prol_chaucer_vg.mp3

metoikos · Post by **metoikos** » July 15th, 2007, 12:08 pm

oh and credit me as Val Grimm.

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 15th, 2007, 12:47 pm

Excellent. Thanks, Val.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 15th, 2007, 1:51 pm

Yay, what a fantastic choice! Did my best with the Middle English (thanks, Seth Lerer).

http://kayray.org/audiobooks/librivox/misc/canterbury_prologue_chaucer_kara.mp3

(used my first name instead of initials, 'cause I have a feeling there are several "ks"s around here...)

Arouet · Post by **Arouet** » July 15th, 2007, 3:22 pm

This was fun, fortunately I've heard this read out loud before so I remember how it sounds xD
Here's mine:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fz3jmmizyad

Thanks!

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 15th, 2007, 4:22 pm

Wonderful, I'm so happy people are recording this one. (I was a little concerned.)

Thanks, Kara and Arouet.

gypsygirl · Post by **gypsygirl** » July 15th, 2007, 6:52 pm

Here's mine. I memorized this the semester I student taught because the teacher I was with also taught English and this was one of the things they were working on.

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 15th, 2007, 8:58 pm

Thanks, Karen.

alanclare · Post by **alanclare** » July 16th, 2007, 9:22 am

This one's rather daunting to anyone who hasn't "done" Middle English at university. Here's a version by a Brummie from the present day Middle England (Birmingham).

http://www.aclare.talktalk.net/canterbury_prologue_chaucer_acc.mp3

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 16th, 2007, 11:54 am

Middle England works for me. Great job, Alan.

kristin · Post by **kristin** » July 23rd, 2007, 2:45 pm

This project is now complete and can be found here: http://librivox.org/prologue-to-the-canterbury-tales-lines-1-18-by-geoffrey-chaucer/

Please, check your information for accuracy. And thanks to everyone who submitted a recording. I know it was a hard one.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 23rd, 2007, 2:57 pm

Looks good! Thanks, Kristin :)

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 29th, 2007, 10:49 am

The random pick for this week's poetry podcast is Karen's version. Nice :)