This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-sentimental-song-book-by-julia-a-moore/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/sentimentalsongb00moorJulia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its questionable grammar, clumsily contrived rhymes and its unique mixture of rigorous moralism and sentimentality, attracted wide-spread mockery from the press and the public, but also the attention of literary celebrities like Mark Twain. Ogden Nash, the comic poet, claimed that Moore was a major source of inspiration. Today the Flint Public Library in Michigan holds the Julia A. Moore Poetry Festival to celebrate bad poetry. (Summary by Algy Pug)
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Magic Window:
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Opening section
Say:
End of opening section"Preface of The Sentimental Song Book by Julia A. Moore. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] . Preface."
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Second Section"End of Preface."
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End of second section"The Author's Early Life, by unknown." [Optional: "Read by your name."] ."
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Subsequent sections"End of The Author's Early Life. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain."
Say:
End of subsequent sections"[Poem title] by Julia A. Moore. Read for librivox dot org [Optional: "by [your name]."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of poem. This recording is in the public domain."
NB. Several of the poems have choruses. The chorus verse should be repeated at the end of every stanza."End of The Sentimental Song Book, by Julia A. Moore."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.
Filename: sentimentalsongbook_##_moore_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. sentimentalsongbook_01_moore_128kb.mp3)
DPL will be mleigh.
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: TriciaG
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
