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man blaith was and jolly and here barber ends the first part of his poem in the second part he goes on to tell us how of how the bruces carried war into ireland of how they overran northumberland and of how at length true peace was made then king robert's little son david who was but five was married to joan the seven year-old sister of king edward iii thus after war came rest and ease to both countries but king robert did not live long to enjoy his will and rest he died and all the land was filled with mourning and sorrow all our defense they said alas and he that all our comfort was our wit and all our governing is brought alas here to ending alas what shall we do or say for in life while he lasted a but all our foes dread where we and in many of our country of our worship ran the renown and that was all for his person

barbara ends his book by telling how the douglas set out to carry the heart of the bruce to palestine and of how he fell fighting in spain and how his dead body and the king's heart were brought back to scotland barbara was born about six years after the battle of bannockburn as a boy he must have heard many stories of these stirring times from those who had taken part in them he must have known many a woman who had lost husband or father in the great struggle he may even have met king robert himself and as a boy he must have shared in the sorrow that fell upon the land when its hero died he must have remembered when he grew up how the people mourn when the dead body of the douglas and the heart of the gallant bruce were brought home from spain but in spite of the barber's prayer to be kept from saying ought but soothe fast thing we must not take the bruce too seriously if king robert was a true king he was also a true hero of romance we must not take all the bruce a serious history but while allowing for the truth of much we must also allow something for the poet's worship of his hero a hero too who live so near the time in which he wrote we must allow something for the feelings of a poet who so passionately loved the freedom for which that hero fought books to read there is so far as i know no modernized version of the bruce but there are many books illustrative of the text in this connection may be read robert the bruce children's heroes series by jeannie lang chapters 24 2 44. scotland's story by h.e marshall the lord of the isles by sir walter scott castle dangerous by sir walter scott the heart of the bruce in lays of the scottish cavaliers by a tune the most available version of the bruce in old english edited by w m mckenzie

end of section 27 recording by linda marie nielsen vancouver bc

section 28 of english literature for boys and girls this is a paperbox recording all the provides recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librevox.com recording by shasta oakland california english literature for boys and girls by henrietta elizabeth marshall section 28 a poet king the bruce is a book which is the outcome of the history of the times it is the outcome of the quarrels between england and scotland and of scotland's struggle for freedom now we come to another poet and another poem which was the outcome of the quarrels between england and scotland for although scotland's freedom was never again in danger the quarrels between the two countries were unhappily not over in 1399 as we know henry iv rested the crown of england from richard ii the new king proved no friend to scotland for he desired as those before him had desired to rule both countries and lost no chance therefore by which he might gain his end so when in 1405 the king of scotland sent his little son james to be educated in france the english attacked the ship in which he sailed and became prisoner instead then of going as a...

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section two of english literature for boys and girls this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

recording by gabriel mcdermott english literature for boys and girls by henrietta elizabeth marshall section two the story of the cattle raid of coulee our earliest literature was history and poetry indeed we might say poetry only for in those far-off times history was always poetry it being only through the songs of the bards and minstrels that history was known and when i say history i do not mean history as we know it it was then merely the gallant tale of some hero's deeds listened to because it was a gallon tale now the people who lived in the british isles long ago were not english it will be simplest for us to call them all celts and to divide them into two families the gills and the connery the gaels lived in ireland and in scotland and the country in england and wales it is to ireland that we must go for the very beginnings of our literature for the roman conquest did not touch ireland and the english who later conquered and took possession of britain hardly troubled the green isle so for centuries the gales of ireland told their tales and handed them on from father to son undisturbed and in ireland a great many old writings have been kept which tell of far-off times

these old irish manuscripts are perhaps none of them older than the 11th century but the stories are far far older they were we may believe passed on by word of mouth for many generations before they were written down and they have kept the feelings of those far-off times it was from ireland that the scots came to scotland and when they came they brought with them many tales so it comes about that in old scottish and in old irish manuscripts we find the same stories many of the manuscripts which are kept in ireland have never been translated out of the old irish in which they were written so they are closed books to all but a few scholars and we need not talk about them but of one of the greatest treasures of old irish literature we will talk this is the lauer nahudra or book of the dun cow it is called so because the stories in it were first written down by saint kirin in a book made from the skin of a favorite cow of a dumb color that book has long been lost and this copy of it was made in the 11th century the name of this whole book helps us to remember that long ago there was no paper and that books were written on vellum made from calfskin and upon parchment made from sheepskin it was not until the 12th century that paper began to be made in some parts of europe and it was not until the 15th century that paper books became common in england in the book of the dun cow and in another old book called the book of lannster there is written the great irish legend called the time bull or the cattle raid of coulee this is a very old tale of the time soon after the birth of christ in the book we are told how this story had been written down long long ago in a book called the great book written on skins but a learned man carried that book to the east then when many years had passed people began to forget the story of the cattle red so the chief minstrel called all the other minstrels together to ask if any of them knew the tale but none of them could remember more than a few verses of it therefore the chief minstrel asked all his pupils to travel into far countries to search for the rest which was lost what followed is told differently in different books but all agree in this that a great chief called fergus came back from the dead in order to tell the tale which was again written down the story is one of the beautiful queen maeve of connect for many years she had lived happily with her husband and her children but one day the queen and her...

I am off to Chichester for a family event but made time to chat about the world's problems.

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this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org recorded by chip in tampa florida on january 13 2006 american indian fairy tales collected by henry r schoolcraft and retold by w.t larnad iagoo the storyteller

there never was anyone so wise and knowing as old iagu there never was an indian who saw and heard so much he knew the secrets of the woods and the fields and understood the language of birds and beasts all his life long he had lived out of doors wandering far in the forest where the wild deer hide doors skimming the waters of the lake in his birchbark canoe besides the things he had learned for himself iagoo knew much more he knew the fairy tales and the wonder stories told him by his grandfather who had heard them from his grandfather and so on a way back to the time when the world was young and strange and there was magic in almost everything iagoo was a great favorite with the children no one knew better where to find the beautiful colored shells which he strung into necklaces for the little girls no one could teach them so well just where to look for the grasses which their nimble fingers wove into baskets for the boys he made bows and arrows bows from the ash tree that would bend far back without breaking and arrows strong and straight from the sturdy oak but most of all iagu won the children's hearts with his stories where did the robin get his red breast how did fire find its way into the world so that an indian can get it out by rubbing two sticks together why was coyote the prairie wolf so much cleverer than all the other animals and why was he always looking behind him when he ran it was old iagoo who could tell you where and why now winter was the time for storytelling when the snow lay deep on the ground the north wind came howling from his home in the land of ice and the cold moon shone from the frosty sky it was then that the indians gathered in the wigwam it was then that iagoo sat by the fire of blazing logs and the little boys and girls gathered round him

wailed the north wind the sparks leapt up and iagoo laid another log on the fire

what a mischievous old fellow was this north wind one could almost see him his flowing hair all hung with icicles if the wigwam were not so strong he would blow it down and if the fire were not so bright he would put it out but this wigwam was made on purpose for just such a time as this and the forest nearby had logs to last forever so the north wind could only gnash his teeth and say

one little girl more timid than the rest would draw nearer and put her hand on the old man's arm oh iagoo she said just listen do you think he can hurt us have no fear answered iago the north wind can do no harm to anyone who is brave and cheerful he blusters and makes a lot of noise but at heart he is really a big coward and the fire will soon frighten him away suppose i tell you a story about it and the story is we shall now tell to you the story of how shingibis fooled the north wind

so ends iagoo the storyteller

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org recorded by chip in tampa florida on january 13 2006 american indian fairy tales collected by henry r schoolcraft and retold by w.t learned

shingibis fools the north wind long long ago in a time when only a few people lived upon the earth their dwelt in the north the tribe of fishermen now the best fish were to be found in the summer season far up in the frozen places where no one could live in the winter at all for the king of this land of ice was a fierce old man called kabanoka by the indians meaning in our...

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hey tail tellers welcome to the telltale kids show now i've got a sneak peek of tomorrow's song for the advent calendar but don't tell anyone okay so tomorrow you'll be able to go to the advent calendar and if we push on door number four click on it it will open and you'll be able to hear this track but this is a sneak peek for people who follow the podcast i hope you like it i really like it a lot

hello everybody it's vapour punk we're going to listen to a german carol and they say that if you're really quiet while you hear the carol afterwards father christmas appears up in the sky in the clouds on his sleigh with all his reindeer

well we need to be very quiet and listen to the song first

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vaper punk yes we do now let's go to sleep

Singing lessons from a German expert!
This is fantastic and you can listen to the entire book or dip in at your leisure as the chapters are marked for you.
Enjoy my little songbirds.

section 0 of how to sing this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by ruth golding how to sing by lily layman translated by richard aldrich preface to the revised edition the object of the first edition is attained the book has opened the eyes of many to the nature of the art of song all those who have anything to say or write must expect to meet misinterpretations there are just as many ideas and modes of expressing the same thing as there are listeners and readers i have endeavoured in this second edition to forestall misinterpretations and to express better what i had to say in the first it must not be thought that i lay claim to anything new but i do lay claim to having translated that which has often been said and likewise misunderstood into the language of the singer who can only guide himself by tone sensations and learn therefrom only a few are chosen not all can become great artists but everyone who devotes himself earnestly to this vocation should endeavor to attain the highest efficiency even though the theater has experienced an incisive reform and will again and again i do not see why we should not hold ourselves responsible for the technique of the art of song the beauty and the preservation of the human voice of which we shall always stand in need without a thorough knowledge of technique the art is an impossibility or is insufficient to keep our bodies supple and healthy we take gymnastic exercises why then should not singers also take daily gymnastic exercises with their vocal organs so as to preserve their material for their profession technique is inseparable from art only by mastering the technique of his material is the artist in a condition to mold his mental work of art and to again give it his possession borrowed from life to others even artists intellectually highly gifted remain crippled without this mastery of the technique surely every great artist has now and then experienced it himself only because i feel myself so small and imperfect in the face of our great art of song only because i see how much there is still left to learn do i from the bottom of my heart wish and hope that others will do it better than i to whom no one will be able to deny at least two things seriousness and the highest respect for art and capability lilly lehmann schaffling montse january 1914.

my purpose my purpose is to discuss simply intelligently yet from a practical standpoint sensation is known to us in singing and exactly ascertained in my experience by the expressions singing open covered dark nasal in the head or in the neck forward or back these expressions correspond to our sensations in singing but they are unintelligible as long as the causes of those sensations are unknown and each one has a different idea of their meaning many singers try their whole lives long to produce them and never succeed this happens because science understands too little of singing the singer too little of science i mean that the physiological explanations of the highly complicated processes of singing are not plainly enough put for the singer who must depend chiefly on his vocal sensations scientific men are not at all agreed as to the exact functions of the several organs and the fewest singers are informed on the subject every serious artist has a sincere desire to help others reach the goal the goal toward which all singers are striving to sing well and beautifully the true art of song has always been possessed and will always be possessed by such individuals as are dowered by nature with all that is needful for it that is healthy vocal organs uninjured by vicious habits of speech a good ear a talent for...

Parental guidance poem, mild adult topics.
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hello darlings welcome to royal clearance now lunch time with sonia what have i got for you well i've got a tune in a moment but first of all i'll tell you what i'm up to so this afternoon i'm actually seeing my mother and it's quite rare that i see her these days because she knits cozies decoses and she thinks she's alan sugar with them and of course this time of year you know december they're flying out absolutely flying out and she insists that they're hand knitted and then she sticks things on them you know like bees and flowers and what have you i mean they're real numbers totally out there gucci would be proud but they take a long time and you know there are only so many hours in the day and i've advised because i'm an entrepreneur and i'm obsessed with the means of production mass production actually because i think it's the only way to earn your millions um but she wants to hand knit them so hand knitted they are but of course they take you know maybe a day to make so you're limited to seven a week in fact i think they take two days so even more limited anyway because of the knitting business inverted commas business um i i feel like an orphan and she's cancelled thursday suppers we always did thursday suppers my brother and i i haven't spoken to my brother to find out how he's dealing with this um abandonment parental loss because you know we we bank on that um well we go to mums twice a week once separately and it was always once together and it was a nice family you know event but i haven't spoken to my brother to find out if you know if he's coping because now we're down to one meal a week instead of two meals a week and to be honest those two meals meant an awful lot to me in many many ways mostly someone else to cook for you because it's wonderful isn't it when you know you're not relying on yourself to cook or your butler to cook for you or the housekeeper whoever's doing your meals you know doing your takeaway she watched i was coming up in the lift the other day the communal lift um here at the royal clarence and there was a delivery man he was trying to get in he couldn't get in so i i let him in i was just i was going down to check the post actually so i said i would i can let you in and we went up in the lift together part way um because obviously i'm you know i'm on a different floor the penthouse is on different floor um and uh i said oh the you know the person who'd ordered this food it probably you know his pizza would be getting cold because it was very cold night and he'd been out there for quite a while he said oh no he's just ordered two cans of coke i thought do people do that do they just ring out for two cans of coke but i suppose they do i mean who knew this is a sort of covert thing is it this is a new wave of ordering anything no matter how small and my daughter told me that you can order chocolate so if you get the munchies and i i rather think that the um the person upstairs needed mixers to be honest i mean i don't know for sure but you know what when would you or you'd have to be under the influence of something surely otherwise you just go out and buy some coca-cola in the car anyway it is not my place to judge but i feel sure that two cans of coca-cola were a lot cheaper than the delivery charge i think it's between 5 and 10 pounds i always thought there was a minimum order but apparently not so anyway back to mother abandonment orphans low feelings of self-esteem or should that be feelings of low self-esteem you know what i mean darlings it's really shocked us i believe me and my brother so i need to speak to him today and find out how is he how he's actually coping but i can tell i can tell i can feel through the airwaves of uh uh familial telepathy that he'll be feeling just as i'm feeling saddened that our dinners have been completely severed in...

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hello everybody welcome to tails hello kids now i've got an absolutely wonderful collection of christmas carols these are from the uh volunteers over at librivox and they volunteer their talents or their services sometimes they're not necessarily as talented as we might expect from a professional recording as it were but they they volunteer their services and their time totally for free um in order to collate material from the you know the our ancestors really you know we're talking about things that are in the public domain from 100 sometimes thousands of years ago and these wonderful volunteers all give their time free and with so much love and affection for the preservation of historic um stories words song melody all of these things and i think it's really really important that we hold on to these things we don't lose them in the mass of uh you know contemporary culture which demands only you know successful financial endeavor and this is the problem isn't it with uh the this highly charged high octane marketing economy that we live in today things that don't make money don't get preserved and that's very upsetting i think because actually things that make money lose their value much quicker than than you know other things that have extreme intellectual value for example or um historic value because they they spoke of the real people the real things that were happening so telltale kids is really um you know we we focus very much on the preservation of ideas and ideologies that are beneficial to humanity to societies and to creative endeavor without you know the prospect of um necessarily making money of course you can have both you can have incredible things uh from from history that also are you know make good financial um viable projects now what i really like about the internet archive is that it's so unpretentious i think that's what i like most about it and when you hear volunteers um that you know like the list that i'm going to play you i'm going to play quite a let me see how many um i've got 20 looks like 23 carols that i'm going to um play for you and when you listen to these you you're taken immediately into the lives of these people these volunteers and i really like that i love the intimacy and the lack of pretension i think it's really refreshing and of course it does mean that some of them are less

professional i suppose is the word i'd use and some of them are um i won't lie some of them are a bit difficult to listen to um especially if you've got perfect pitch now i don't have perfect pitch but i've got pretty good pitch i make music every day i hear music all day every day and as time goes on my ear it just improves uh oh you know increasingly and it's a curse actually when you have perfect pitch or good pitch you you start to fault everything so i'm you know i'm recommending that you try not to do that if you can of course if you're a string player like i am you need to know when you're playing a bum note it's important that you do that um anyway the selection i've got for you have varying um levels of professionalism but what they all have is an insight into something of the time so for example the lyrics lyrics are all very clear in these performances you can really hear the diction and i think that's another thing that you get with librivox very often even if the recordings are quite bad you can hear the words and i'll pop this on auto text um and you'll you'll get the complete text um so that's that can be really helpful if you're here because you're looking for source material you're a researcher and of course these archives are so important for researchers now i wanted to talk also though but about the um the usefulness of these recordings these recordings are in the public domain and that means we can do stuff with them so i'm doing this an advent calendar with the orchestra the robot orchestra and i'm going to work with a couple of these i really like the belgian one...

Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1
by Various

I apologize for getting David's surname wrong!
I am trying to get the subtitles done but it is proving a bit tricky for obvious reasons.

Publication date 2006-10-14
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics chinese, tang, poem, poetry, li bai, du fu, wang wei, wang changling, wei yingwu, meng haoran, cen can, cantonese, mandarin, hokkien, taiwanese
LibriVox recording of Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1, in the public domain.
The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the authors, the titles in English and the LibriVox readers. There are also links to the texts in Chinese and English. The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and music all reached peaks of perfection. Poetry was the epitome of the arts: a scholastic requirement, a route to fame, a moulder of character. Nearly 50,000 poems of the Tang have survived. The collection 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' was compiled around 1763. It comprises six volumes, with poems grouped by verse form. Volume 1 covers the 'ancient verse' style in five-character lines (poems 1 to 35), and 'folk song style verse' (36 to 45). The masters Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei are well represented here. Recordings in this volume are in Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin and Taiwanese, as indicated in the titles; some are spoken, others are sung. (Summary by David Barnes)