For anyone doing the cover art for this project here is a picture of Yeats' Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoor_Ballylee#/media/File%3AThoor_Ballylee002(js).jpg
This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-tower-by-william-butler-yeats/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002551705
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland which Yeats purchased in 1917 and renovated for use as a summer residence and where he wrote much of his poetry.
The book includes his well known poems Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the Swan.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
Genres for the project: Poetry/Single author
Keywords that describe the book: Poetry, Irish, English, Yeats
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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.
For the first section say:
At end of recording say:"The Tower by William Butler Yeats. This is LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
For subsequent sections say:"End of Poem." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name."]
At end of recording say:" Title of Poem by William Butler Yeats. Read for Librivox.org by your name."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of poem. This recording is in the Public Domain."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Tower, by William Butler Yeats."
Filename: thetower_##_yeats_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. thetower_01_yeats_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please contact an admin)
MC to select: lorda
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.
