[COMPLETE][Music][Biography]The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower - kit

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The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower (1869 - 1928).

This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project https://librivox.org/worlds-great-men-of-music-by-harriette-brower/
These stories are gathered from many sources including biographies, letters, journals and musical history. The life story of 25 of the most celebrated musicians is presented. The author has aimed to make the story-sketches interesting to young people in hopes that they may prove valuable to musical readers of all ages. Students of piano, violin or other instruments need to know how the great composers lived their lives. In every musical career described in this book, from the old masters represented by Bach and Beethoven to the musical prophets of our own day, there is a wealth of inspiration and practical guidance for the artist in any field. Through their struggles, sorrows and triumphs, divine melody and harmony came into being, which will bless the world for all time to come. ( Author)
[*]Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13291

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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.

Say:
"Chapter # of The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians.
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."]
"The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians, by Harriette Brower. Chapter Title."
End of recording:
Say:
"End of Chapter #."
[Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:
"End of The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians, by Harriette Brower."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.

Filename: worldsgreatmenofmusic_##_brower_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. worldsgreatmenofmusic_01_brower_128kb.mp3)

Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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I'll MC this for you.

Too many genres! Genres are indicative of where in a library or bookstore the work would be located; it's not a list of everything that relates to it. :) Two, or at very most 3, genres work for most books. I'm knocking it down to Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography and Non-fiction/Music (although since this isn't about the music itself, that's a debatable genre). ;)
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TriciaG wrote: January 11th, 2021, 1:35 pm I'll MC this for you.

Too many genres! Genres are indicative of where in a library or bookstore the work would be located; it's not a list of everything that relates to it. :) Two, or at very most 3, genres work for most books. I'm knocking it down to Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography and Non-fiction/Music (although since this isn't about the music itself, that's a debatable genre). ;)
Hi,

Thank you for the MC.

I didn't know about the genres, so that will help me on future projects to know better which ones to pick and how many to pick. I wondered about that with some of the other solos that I had done and I couldn't find any info on how many to select. I think the ones that you mentioned are the most appropriate. I do feel that the Non-fiction/Music would be best second choice since that is the way many people will search online for a book like this.

Thanks again for the information, and the MC. It should be a fun project.
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I'll be happy to DPL if you are all right with my PLing be done on Sundays. (Many of my PLing projects seem to be on hold for the holidays, so the readers might start up again soon. Otherwise, I'd put this close to the top of my list.) If you and TriciaG can live with this, I'm on board. And don't worry about saying 'no.'
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KevinS wrote: January 11th, 2021, 4:57 pm I'll be happy to DPL if you are all right with my PLing be done on Sundays. (Many of my PLing projects seem to be on hold for the holidays, so the readers might start up again soon. Otherwise, I'd put this close to the top of my list.) If you and TriciaG can live with this, I'm on board. And don't worry about saying 'no.'

Thank you KevinS. That works fine for me. I often get finished with my solos before the time I allocate. It kinds of depends on how interesting the subject matter is. I'm doing this book since my wife was a concert pianist (retired now) and she said she would have loved to be able to read a book like this when she was in college. So it may be a chapter at a time, or a number each week. But there is no hurry, and thank you for agreeing to DPL.
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Hi,

I'll be completing the MW tonight. Thank you. :D
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Post by TriciaG »

Great! I've put Kevin in as DPL and am moving this to Going Solo. :)
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Post by PSHarvey106 »

PSHarvey106 wrote: January 11th, 2021, 4:23 pm
TriciaG wrote: January 11th, 2021, 1:35 pm I'll MC this for you.

Too many genres! Genres are indicative of where in a library or bookstore the work would be located; it's not a list of everything that relates to it. :) Two, or at very most 3, genres work for most books. I'm knocking it down to Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography and Non-fiction/Music (although since this isn't about the music itself, that's a debatable genre). ;)
Hi,

Thank you for the MC.

I didn't know about the genres, so that will help me on future projects to know better which ones to pick and how many to pick. I wondered about that with some of the other solos that I had done and I couldn't find any info on how many to select. I think the ones that you mentioned are the most appropriate. I do feel that the Non-fiction/Music would be best second choice since that is the way many people will search online for a book like this.

Thanks again for the information, and the MC. It should be a fun project.

Hi,

I just noticed you shortened the file name. Thanks for doing that so it was not so unwieldy.
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Post by TriciaG »

Oh, yeah, I did that. You're free to do that yourself, actually. And if you want to change up that first part a bit more, feel free. 8-)
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Hi,

I uploaded section 00 for PL. I couldn't wait to get started, so I had to do a section before another day passed. :lol:

Thank you.
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Hi,

I uploaded section 1 for PL.

Thank you.
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PSHarvey106 wrote: January 14th, 2021, 1:22 am Hi,

I uploaded section 1 for PL.

Thank you.
Great! I should be able to do these PLs more quickly than I expected.
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Sections Zero and 1 PL OK!
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I changed your title for section 0. It's Foreword, like a "word at the fore" rather than Forward, as in "the direction of your feet". :P
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Post by PSHarvey106 »

TriciaG wrote: January 14th, 2021, 7:08 am I changed your title for section 0. It's Foreword, like a "word at the fore" rather than Forward, as in "the direction of your feet". :P

Hi,

Thanks for the catch on that. :)
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