Simple Gifts: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Simple Gifts, credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 30th, 2010. Several Shaker manuscripts indicate that this is a "Dancing Song" or a "Quick Dance." The references to "turning" in the last two lines have been identified as dance instructions. The melody was used by Aaron Copeland as the basis for Appalachian Spring. (summary by Wikipedia and David Lawrence)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Simple Gifts
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 11:09

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• instruction
• religion

Track guide

1. Simple Gifts - Read by ALC — 0:48
2. Simple Gifts - Read by DL — 0:43
3. Simple Gifts - Read by GHS — 0:47
4. Simple Gigts - Read by JB — 0:42
5. Simple Gifts - Read by LAH — 0:48
6. Simple Gifts - Read by LLW — 0:47
7. Simple Gifts - Read by MLR — 0:47
8. Simple Gifts - Read by MOE — 0:51
9. Simple Gifts - Read by NJB — 0:56
10. Simple Gifts - Read by RN — 0:53
11. Simple Gifts - Read by SD — 0:52
12. Simple Gifts - Read by TDO — 0:44
13. Simple Gifts - Read by VCF — 0:49
14. Simple Gifts - Read by VG — 0:47

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