War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells

Publication date 2006-04-08
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, science fiction, aliens
Librivox recording of War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. Read by Rebecca.

War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. The most important of these was the unification and militarization of Germany. The story, written in a semi-documentary style, is told in the first person by an unnamed observer. It tells of the events which happen mostly in London and the county of Surrey, England, when a number of vessels manned by aliens are fired from Mars and land on Earth. (Summary by Rebecca).
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war of the worlds by h.g wells book 1 the coming of the martians chapter 1 the eve of war

no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own that as men visit themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might excrucianize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water with infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs serene in their assurance of their empire over mata it is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same no one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable it is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days at most terrestrial men fancied that there might be other men upon mars perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise yet across the gulf of space minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish intellect vast and cruel and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us and early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment the planet mars i scarcely need to remind the reader revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140 million miles and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world it must be if the nebular hypothesis has any truth older than our world and long before this earth cease to be molten life upon its surface must have begun its course the fact that it is scarcely one-seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature of which life could begin it has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence yet so vain is man and so blinded by his vanity that no writer up to the very end of the 19th century expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed therefore and indeed at all beyond its earthly level nor was it generally understood that since mars is older than our earth with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from times beginning but nearer its end the secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbor its physical condition is still largely a mystery but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter its air is much more attenuated than ours its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface and as its slow seasons change huge snow caps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones that last stage of...

Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg A Jazz Poem in More Ways Than One Free Audiobook

jazz fantasia by carl samberg read for librivox.org by alan davis-drake in long branch new jersey

drum on your drums batter on your banjos sob on the long cool winding saxophones go to it oh jasmine sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans let your trombones ooze and go hush hush with the slippery sandpaper moan like autumn wind high in the lonesome treetops moon solved like you wanted somebody terrible cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle car bang bang you jaz man bang all together drums traps banjos horns and tin cans make two people fight at the top of the stairways and scratch each other's eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs can the rough stuff now a mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river with a whoo

and the green lanterns calling to the high soft stars a red moon rides on the humps of the low river hills go to it oh jazz man

end of poem this recording is in the public domain

D Major and Minor Arpeggio Notes Fingering ABRSM Suzuki Piano School Skills Free Audiobooks.
hi guys welcome to the d major d minor class i'm just going to tell you the names of the notes i want you to learn the arpeggios so that you can comfortably play the arpeggio with a right or a left hand remember always to use your second on that f sharp on your right hand and put your thumb under for the a it's going to be much easier for me let me tell you now

i'll call out the notes d f a d f sharp a d and if you go under you just repeat on the way up those are the notes really simple the fingering according to the abrsm grade eight on the left hand is five and then third three or four entirely up to you and then two and then one and then you pass over um for the f sharp and then two and one again and the fingering on the right hand is one two three under one two three and five but when we are playing arpeggios um as a tool for improvising we're not probably looking at passing our fingers under this is um not something we need to worry too much about so just focus on the particularly um the left hand within an octave it'd be very rare especially in the music that we're doing uh where we would utilize two octaves and actually generally we'd probably be a bit more up here a lot of our jazz music doesn't like um us to be too low down um and also a lot of pianos don't sound so great down there so that's the d major let's look at the d minor what do we do to get a minor yes indeed we flatten the third d f natural a d and again and back down d a f natural d and on the right hand

and if we want to do two octaves we do one two three under thumb on the wall on the d um f natural third on the a and pinky on the d because we've settled finally we don't have to do any of this shunting around okay that's d major d minor come back i'm going to be doing b major and b minor

C Major and C Minor Arpeggios Chords Fingering Notes Improv Skills Free Lessons Audiobook.
hi guys welcome to the tail teller school of music i'm doing the c major and c minor arpeggio i'm just going to call out the notes then i want you to memorize them learn them and we're going to be playing around with these and doing a lot of improv for our jazz classes c e g c e g c e g c you can go lower down c g e c g e depends how big your piano is let's do the minor how do we get a minor we flatten the third the third there was an e let's flatten it

let's put it with the rest of the chord or the other let's play and play all those notes together glorious this was the major this is the minor utterly utterly gorgeous chord i love c minor it's one of my favorites so what have we got we've got c e flat g c e flat g c e flat g c e flat g and if you want to go higher up c lean into it don't stretch very bad to stretch come back g e flat c g e flat c g e flat c let's go lower g e flat c g e flat c even lower g and so on um play around get to know them do them all really enjoy yourselves have some fun with it and then we can um join uh in in glorious song making together because this is the key to improvising the broken chord and the um arpeggio are the uh the secret weapon for improvising okay

J.S. Bach, Volume 1 by Albert Schweitzer 2 Biography Famous Musician Free Audiobook.

chapter 2 of js bach by albert schweitzer translated by ernest newman this librivox recording is in the public domain read for you by chiquito crosto the origin of the texts of the corals it was a custom in the catholic church in the earliest times for the congregation to take a direct part in the singing during the service to it belonged the doxologies of the amends the kyries and the hymns at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh however this privilege of the faithful which had been secured by ambrose was taken from them by the gregorian reform which substituted the singing of the priests for that of the congregation in germany however this reform was not adopted in its entirety the people still preserved a few of their privileges especially in the easter service when they joined in the kyrie and the alleluia the result was that it became the custom to insert german verses among the lines of the liturgy in these places in this way the german sacred song gained admission into the religious service under cover of the kyrie and the alleluia throughout a long period of time these ejaculations formed the obligato verse ending to every hymn sung in the church hence these songs were called kirilizen that is kairi songs the oldest easter hymn dates back as far as the 12th century it runs thus christ is christian founder mata allah the solemn viewer allah for saint christ soul uncertain kirileis hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the solemn viewer aleph russian christ soul uncertain sign carry lies the mystery plays that had such a vogue in the 14th and 15th centuries also helped the german hymn to conquer the church the mixed latin german christmas cradle songs have a quite uncommon charm the poetry of them is of the most primitive kind imaginable the words are put together less with regard to the sense than to the sand and the rocking rhythm yet the bright christmas enchantment that surrounds them affects us no less than it did the generations that have vanished in box organ corrals there are two of these old christmas songs indulgi jubilo noon singet un side fraud unsus hudson warner leaked in precipitation

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in bethlehem in bethlehem undercounted jerusalem jerusalem allah haal ein kind gabon zu bethlehem jew bethlehem des freud says jerusalem

cognovit asinus asinus dominus dominus

in time translated latin hymns came to be admitted into german sacred poetry the credo the paternoster the ten commandments the seven last words and various psalms in metrical paraphrases were also incorporated in it when the reformation of the 16th century through the doors of the churches open to german poetry it was under no necessity to set to work to compose appropriate hymns but could choose what suited it from the treasures of the 14th and 15th centuries luther with that wonderful artistic feeling for diction that even nietzsche had to acknowledge in him undertook to revise the old possessions for the new church and to alter and improve them as might be required at the same time he himself continued the work of the middle ages by refashioning latin hymns psalms liturgical chants and biblical fragments into hymns for the german service the german reformation had this advantage over the french that it found a spiritual song already existing in the popular tongue and therefore a ground upon which it could build but its great good fortune was that it possessed in luther a man who would not permit the old wood to be cut down recognizing with sure prescience that the new song must grow up in the shade of the old on the other hand the sacred folk song withered away in the romanesque countries because it had no root in the middle ages and had to exist as best it could upon the psalter as it does to the present day at the first glance it may seem incomprehensible that calvin by making...

J.S. Bach, Volume 1
by Albert Schweitzer

Publication date 2013-10-11
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks,

chapter one of j s bach by albert schweitzer translated by ernest newman this librivox recording is in the public domain read for you by chiquito crasto the roots of bach's art some artists are subjective some objective the art of the former has its source in their personality their work is almost independent of the epoch in which they live a law unto themselves they place themselves in opposition to their epoch and originate new forms for the expression of their ideas of this type was richard wagner bach belongs to the order of objective artists these are wholly of their own time and work only with the forms and the ideas that their time proffers them they exercise no criticism upon the media of artistic expression that they find lying ready to their hand and feel no inner compulsion to open out new paths they aren't not coming solely from the stimulus of their outer experience we need not seek the roots of their work in the fortunes of its creator in them the artistic personality exists independently of the human the latter remaining in the background as if it were something almost accidental boxworks would have been the same even if his existence had run quite another course did we know more of his life than is now the case and were we in possession of all the letters he had ever written we would still be no better informed as to the inward sources of his works than we are now the art of the objective artist is not impersonal but super personal it is as if he felt only one impulse to express again what he already finds in existence but to express it definitively in unique perfection it is not he who lives it is the spirit of the time that lives in him all the artistic endeavors desires creations aspirations and errors of his own and of previous generations are concentrated and worked out to their conclusion in him in this respect the greatest german musician has his analog only in the greatest of german philosophers kant's work has the same impersonal character he is merely the brain in which the philosophical ideas and problems of his day come to fruition moreover he uses unconcernedly the scholastic forms and terminology of the time just as bach took up the musical forms offered to him by his epoch without examining them bach indeed is clearly not a single but a universal personality he profited by the musical development of three or four generations when we pursue the history of this family which occupies so unique a position in the art life of germany we have the feeling that everything that is happening there must culminate in something consummate we find it to be a matter of course that someday a bach shall come in whom all those other barks shall find a posthumous existence one in whom the fragment of german music that has been embodied in this family shall find its completion johann sebastian bach to speak the language of kant is a historical postulate whatever path we traverse through the poetry and the music of the middle ages we are always led to him the grandest creations of the koral from the 12th to the 18th century adorned his cantatas and passions handel and the others make no use of the superb treasures of coral melody they want to be free of the past bach feels otherwise he makes the coral the foundation of his work if we pursue again the history of the harmonization of the coral we are once more led up to him what the masters of polyphonic music eckhart pratorius and the others strove after he accomplishes they could harmonize the melody only his music at the same time reproduces the text so it is again with the chorale preludes and the choral fantasias pachelbel boom books to huda the masters in this field created the forms but it was not given to them to quicken the forms with the spirit if all their...

Little Folded Hands 5 Birthday Children's Spiritual Prayer Book Free Audiobook Spiritual.

section 5 of little folded hands by anonymous this librivox recording is in the public domain section 5 birthday holy jesus every day keep us in the narrow way and when earthly things are past bring our ransom souls at last where they need no star to guide where no clouds thy glory hide amen as a little child relies on a care beyond his own knows he's neither strong nor wise fears to stir a step alone let me thus with thee abide as my father guard and guide amen

faithful shepherd feed me in the pastures green faithful shepherd lead me where thy steps are seen hold me fast and guide me in the narrow way so with thee beside me i shall never stray daily bring me nearer to the heavenly shore may my faith grow clearer may i love thee more hallow every pleasure every gift and pain be thyself my treasure though none else i gain amen we thank the heavenly father for every earthly good for life and health and clothing and for our daily food oh give us hearts to thank thee for every blessing sent and whatsoever thou send us make us there with content amen holy jesus be my light shine upon my way through this tempting changing life lead me day by day amen lord be thou my constant guide lead me all the way till i reach thy home at last nevermore to stray amen oh god thou faithful god thou fount that ever flowest without whom nothing is who all good gifts bestowest a pure and healthy frame o give me and within a conscience free from blame a soul unhurt by sin amen

end of section 5 recording by jp for kjv

Little Folded Hands 4 Sickness Children's Spiritual Prayer Book Free Audiobook Spiritual.

section 4 of little folded hands by anonymous this librivox recording is in the public domain section 4 prayers in sickness lord help me amen

jesus redeemer have mercy upon me amen

tender jesus meek and mild look on me a little child help me if it is thy will to recover from all ill amen

i am weak but thou art mighty help me o my god amen dear father help me believe that all things work together for good to them that love god amen

o thou from whom all blessings flow i lift my heart to thee in all my sorrows conflicts woes dear lord remember me amen

dear father thy child is sick look upon me in tender mercy and if it be thy will raise me up and grant me health and strength amen

heavenly father it hath pleased thee to visit me with sickness i know that thou art too kind and good to send me anything but for my blessing help me to bear my illness and grant that i may soon recover through jesus christ my lord and savior amen other refuge have i none hangs my helpless soul on thee leave ah leave me not alone still support and comfort me all my trust on the estate all my help from thee i bring cover my defenseless head with the shadow of thy wing amen lord gracious god i cry to thee still bless me with thy favor forgive my sins and let me live thy child remain forever thou hast redeemed me with thy blood thou art my only trust and god in every need my savior amen

nearer my god to thee nearer to thee even though it be a cross that raiseth me still all my song shall be nearer my god to thee nearer my god to thee nearer to thee amen

lord jesus christ my best physician i come to thee in this my sickness i pray thee to look upon me in tender mercy send thy guardian angel to watch over me and soon make me well amen

lord jesus look down from heaven upon my mama papa brother sister and soon make her him well again thou canst do all things hear my prayer amen

end of section 4 recording by jp for kjv

Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche 2 Greek Women Free Audiobook.
section two of early greek philosophy and other essays by friedrich nietzsche translated by maximilian auguste muga this librivox recording is in the public domain the greek woman fragment 1871.

just as plato from disguises and obscurities brought to light the innermost purpose of the state so also he conceived the chief cause of the position of the hellenic woman with regard to the state in both cases he saw in what existed around him the image of the ideas manifested to him and of these ideas of course the actual was only a hazy picture and phantasmagoria he who according to the usual custom considers the position of the hellenic woman to be altogether unworthy and repugnant to humanity must also turn with this reproach against the platonic conception of this position for as it were the existing forms were only precisely set forth in this latter conception here therefore our question repeats itself should not the nature and the position of the hellenic woman have a necessary relation to the goals of the hellenic will of course there is one side of the platonic conception of woman which stands in abrupt contrast with hellenic custom plato gives a woman a full share in the rights knowledge and duties of man and considers woman only as the weaker sex in that she will not achieve remarkable success in all things without however disputing this sexist title to all those things we must not attach more value to this strange notion than to the expulsion of the artist out of the ideal state these are sidelines daringly misdrawn aberrations as it were of the hand otherwise so sure and of the so calmly contemplating eye which at times under the influence of the deceased master becomes dim and ejected in this mood he exaggerates the master's paradoxes and in the abundance of his love gives him self-satisfaction by very eccentrically intensifying the latter's doctrines even to foolhardiness the most significant word however that plato as a greek could say on the relation of woman to the state was that so objectionable demand that in the perfect state the family was to cease at present let us take no account of his abolishing even marriage in order to carry out this demand fully and of his substituting solemn nuptials arranged by order of the state between the bravest men and the noblest women for the attainment of beautiful offspring in that principle proposition however he has indicated most distinctly too distinctly offensively distinctly an important preparatory step of the hellenic will toward the procreation of the genius but in the customs of the hellenic people the claim of the family on man and child was extremely limited the man lived in the state the child grew up for the state and was guided by the hand of the state the greek will took care that the need of culture could not be satisfied in the seclusion of a small circle from the state the individual has to receive everything in order to return everything to the state woman accordingly means to the state what sleep does to man in her nature lies the healing power which replaces that which has been used up the beneficial rest in which everything immoderate confines itself the eternal same by which the excessive and the surplus regulate themselves in her the future generation dreams woman is more closely related to nature than man and in all her essentials she remains ever herself culture is with her always something external a something which does not touch the kernel that is eternally faithful to nature therefore the culture of woman might well appear to the athenian as something indifferent yay if one only wanted to conjure it up in one's mind as something ridiculous he who at once feels himself compelled from that to infer the position of women among the greeks as unworthy and all too cruel should not indeed take as his criterion the quote culture end quote of...

Wee Ones' Bible Stories 2 Jesus Calms The Tempest Free Spiritual Audiobooks for Children.
chapter 2 of we wounds bible stories by anonymous this librivox recording is in the public domain jesus calms the tempest at one time when jesus had entered a ship to cross the sea of galilee with his disciples a great storm arose and the waves nearly covered the little vessel so that they were apparently in great danger the apostles were frightened but jesus was asleep and the storm did not disturb him as it grew worse and worse and the disciples became more and more afraid they went back to where jesus lay and wakened him crying out pastor dost thou not care that we perish when they said this jesus arose and spoke to the winds in the sea saying peace be still then at once the wind went down and the sea became calm and the hearts of the men were filled with wonder and still greater faith and all while they said to one another what manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him they had not yet learned that jesus had power over all things whenever he chose to exercise it at another time when the disciples had crossed the sea of galilee expecting that jesus would join them upon the other side a storm came up suddenly as before and the waters were quickly piled up in great waves for the lake was narrow and deep and the storms usually burst in full fury with little warning doing much harm before there was a chance to escape at this time the disciples had hard work to row the boat against the wind and it was tossed about here and there by the waves in the middle of the sea until toward morning jesus went out toward it walking upon the water when the disciples saw him coming they thought it was a spirit and were frightened but he spoke to them saying be of good cheer it is i be not afraid then peter said lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water jesus said come and peter stepped out upon the water and started toward the master but his faith was not strong enough and as he began to sink he cried lord save me jesus stretched out his hand and held him up oh thou of little faith he said wherefore didst thou doubt when jesus came into the boat the storm ceased and soon they reached the shore then the disciples worshiped him and said of a truth thou art the son of god end of chapter 2.