(COMPLETE)Sing-Song:a nursery rhyme book/Christina Rossetti-ans

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Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book by Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalogue page: https://librivox.org/sing-song-a-nursery-rhyme-book-by-christina-rossetti/

One hundred and twenty six beautifully written short poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. ( Maggie Travers )
    1. Where do I find the text? Source text (please only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/singsongnurseryr00ros

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      Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Poetry

      Keywords that describe the book: poetry, nature, children, love, baby, babies

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    2. BEFORE recording: Please check the Recording Notes: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430

      Set your recording software to:
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      Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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      [• At the beginning of the recording, read the abbreviated "LibriVox disclaimer":
      "[Poem title], by Christina Rosetti, read for LibriVox.org" by [your name] or some variation on that, adding date, location, your personal URL, etc., if you wish.
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      At the end of the book, say (in addition):
      "End of Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book by Christina Rossetti.
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    128 kbps MP3
    singsong_##_rossetti_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. singsong_01_rossetti_128kb.mp3)

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I want to record this book with my daughter (another Librivox reader fairyland) and didn't know how to propose this. It's not a solo project but not a typical "group" project either... How should I mark this to reflect that in the Title line?
Last edited by maggietravers on November 12th, 2015, 1:51 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Post by annise »

Call it a Solo in the header . It will be catalogued as a group probably so she gets credit if you are registering her , otherwise it can be a solo and you can mention it in the summary
I'll set it up

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Post by annise »

MW up - I've marked it fully subscribed . And we could probably use the short poetry disclaimer ?

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Post by maggietravers »

annise wrote:MW up - I've marked it fully subscribed . And we could probably use the short poetry disclaimer ?

Anne

Thanks so much! I was actually coming to post and ask you if we could do that :) Perfect!

Now, we just need someone to DPL....
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Post by annise »

I notice there are a couple of versions at archive with the illustrations. Maybe we could link the final product to one of them - they are just black and white but nicely drawn ?

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Post by maggietravers »

annise wrote:I notice there are a couple of versions at archive with the illustrations. Maybe we could link the final product to one of them - they are just black and white but nicely drawn ?

Anne

I used the link provided on the forum for Ambleside books needing to be recorded, but I agree.... I think this link would be better. What do you think? https://archive.org/details/singsongnurseryr00ros
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:D

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Post by MrsHand »

Could I DPL this? It looks wonderful.
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MrsHand wrote:Could I DPL this? It looks wonderful.
Thanks, Kristin! That would be great!
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Post by annise »

http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/manuscript-of-sing-song-a-collection-of-nursery-rhymes-by-christina-rossetti has the original handwritten manuscript with corrections - I thought you both may find it interesting too. I hadn't realised this was where
"Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these. etc" came from. It was one of the first poems we learnt by heart at school.

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Post by MrsHand »

Sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, & 23 are all PL OK!
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MrsHand wrote:
fairyland wrote:Here are the start of my sections:

02 (Time 0:34) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_02_rossetti_128kb.mp3
04 (Time 0:29) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_04_rossetti_128kb.mp3
06 (Time 0:24) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_06_rossetti_128kb.mp3
08 (Time 0:29) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_08_rossetti_128kb.mp3
10 (Time 0:31) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_10_rossetti_128kb.mp3
12 (Time 0:30) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_12_rossetti_128kb.mp3
14 (Time 0:35) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_14_rossetti_128kb.mp3
16 (Time 0:28) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_16_rossetti_128kb.mp3
18 (Time 0:25) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_18_rossetti_128kb.mp3
20 (Time 0:31) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_20_rossetti_128kb.mp3
22 (Time 0:24) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_22_rossetti_128kb.mp3
24 (Time 0:26) https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/singsong_24_rossetti_128kb.mp3
These are all PL OK! Some of yours were not very happy nursery rhymes...lots of things dying.

Oh, yes! My daughter asked me as she recorded them, "Why do people write about that?" Had a nice chat about how things have changed and how removed from death, which is natural, that we are now. Personally, I was thankful she had to record them. She's less *ahem* emotional than me ;)
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