Librivox recordings sung or with musical accompaniment.

ductapeguy · Post by **ductapeguy** » October 10th, 2006, 4:47 pm

Lazyweb request:

I know that it is our policy not to use background music etc.
I'm looking for Librivox recordings in which the reader has sung parts of a passage (or all of a poem) or where some incidental music (whistling etc.. ) may have slipped in. I know that there is also a project to record PD christmas songs.

Please point out some musical LV recordings to me.

Sean

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 10th, 2006, 5:01 pm

I did a bit of a song in The Secret Garden... will try to track down the file later.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » October 10th, 2006, 5:08 pm

o0o0o0o0o I Have a great one for you by Peter Y. Uploading now to my staredits folder!

http://www.studioae.com/LibriVox/Staredits/TwoLovelyBlackEyes.mp3

Edit, its three of him singing drunkenly LOL

ductapeguy · Post by **ductapeguy** » October 10th, 2006, 5:24 pm

Thanks, keep them coming.

opheliad · Post by **opheliad** » October 10th, 2006, 6:54 pm

In chapter 21 here, there is the hymn Abide With Me which is recited to a 3 part harmony humming rendition of the hymn.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 10th, 2006, 7:21 pm

Here, I chopped the song out for you (plus some lead-in text):
http://kayray.org/audiobooks/librivox/misc/secret_garden_song.mp3
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 26.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 10th, 2006, 7:22 pm

Oh, and I think ceastman (Catharine) did a song, maybe, in one of the chapters of the collaborative Wind in the Willows?

And a bunch of us did a drunken rendition of Yorkshire Rose in one of the Ulysses chapters... Gesine or Anita might know where it is.

gypsygirl · Post by **gypsygirl** » October 10th, 2006, 8:13 pm

I did a bit of singing in chapters 15 (near the end of the chapter) and 17 (near the beginning of the chapter) of Rilla of Ingleside.

kristin · Post by **kristin** » October 10th, 2006, 8:47 pm

I recorded Ophelia's songs for Act 4 of Hamlet. It's not done yet but if you are interested I can probably track down the file.

ceastman · Post by **ceastman** » October 11th, 2006, 11:20 am

Yes - check out near the end of Ch. 12 of both the solo and collaborative Wind in the Willows. I wrote Toad's Last Little Song and did it with piano accompaniment, but I like Mark's performance of it better.

There's music in Section 15c of Ulysses - not released yet.

Check out the Anniversary Podcast; there's a section in the Snoopers bit that's a sampling of some o fhte music people have done.

-Catharine

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » October 11th, 2006, 12:49 pm

Thanks for adding the Three Men singing, Starlite;

Here's a single verse sung by a character in "The Demoiselle D'Ys" in the first volume of The King In Yellow, by Robert Chambers. I made up the tune:

http://download.yousendit.com/66F2F385702C5464

Peter

GlassMask · Post by **GlassMask** » October 12th, 2006, 11:47 am

I sang a few tunes in Bob Benchley's "Love Conquers All" (in the catalog), and recently tried mixing four voices together for the weekly poetry jam's "Ballad of John Silver". All tunes were rehearsed once and made up beyond that.

Gosh, I miss making up songs and raps on the spot with my old improv group. . .

Ted

ceastman · Post by **ceastman** » October 12th, 2006, 2:09 pm

Oh. Duh. And check out the Pirates of Penzance (Dramatic Works) and Christmas Carols (Short Works) threads.

-Catharine

PS Ted - Totally awesome quote!!!

12makoto · Post by **12makoto** » October 13th, 2006, 8:20 am

Hey Sean, the only songs I can remember from the Catalog are in O Canada. There are 3 sung versions (1 fr and 2 en) numbers 2, 5, and 8 in that collection.

Sean

ductapeguy · Post by **ductapeguy** » October 16th, 2006, 7:37 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions. To hear the reason for my inquiry, listen to this week's Librivox Community Podcast (dated Oct 19).

http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_community