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One of the more famous United States presidential speeches from the Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term military-industrial complex for his final address as president of the United States in order to caution about the potential social and political effects of a large peacetime arms industry.

Used in:

Full transcript available at the Eisenhower Presidential Library site.[1]

Promoted Image:Eisenhower farewell address.ogg OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]



A wax cylinder recording from Edison's "Perfected" Phonograph, used in a press conference that introduced the phonograph to London.

This is not the earliest known recording of music: However, the earliest recording is this: [2] - which is almost unlistenable, thanks to severe degradation.

This recording, however, is less than a month and a half after that one, and is actually quite a good performance, after a few seconds, the distortion clears, and the middle section is surprisingly good. Though it ends a bit abruptly, given the timescales, I think that it is astounding.

Appears in Arthur Sullivan, The Lost Chord, Phonograph cylinder.




Promoted Edison_cylinder_Lost_Chord.ogg --Filll (talk | wpc) 03:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


While the quality of this is abysmal, having been badly degraded by too many playings of the wax cylinder, this extract of Israel in Egypt is also the earliest bit of recorded music still in existence.[3] As such, it probably deserves to be a featured sound, despite its excessive flaws. 2m28s.


Promoted --Seddσn talk Editor Review 04:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A particularly good quality recording for 1905, used in Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and Robert Planquette. One of Planquette's most popular works.


Promoted Beaufort regiment de sambre et 1909 cd 1001.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 16:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

President John F. Kennedy's famous speech from the Berlin Wall, another landmark from the Cold War. Complete speech.

Complete transcript available at the Kennedy Presidential Library.[4]

There are indeed some sound artifacts in the recording. The reason for this is that we do not have the complete recording of the Kennedy speech in this recording. We are missing about half of it; most of the German translation is missing , and some of the English. The "cuts" in the original audio file introduced a variety of clicks and other strange sounds. This is not the fault of Wikipedia editors, since this edited version is the only public domain version that is available. From the Kennedy Library website [5]:

This text is the version published in the Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963. Both this text and the audio version of this speech ommit the words of the German translator. This audio file was edited by the White House Signal Agency shortly after the speech was recorded. The White House Signal Agency was charged with recording only the words of the President. The Kennedy Library has an audiotape of a network broadcast of the full speech, with the translator's words, and a journalist's commentary. Because of copyright restrictions it is only available for listening at the Library for reasons of private study and scholarship.

Of course, filters could be created to reduce the size of these clicks and other audio discontinuities, at the cost of actually obscuring some of the information content. In particular, it is important to note that about half of this speech is missing. The clicks and other audio artifacts are a reminder of that, and are of historic interest. --Filll (talk | wpc) 22:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Promoted Jfk berlin address high.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 16:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was going through the dial tone article and found this. It is short, but following Shepard-Risset glissando it think it qualifies.

  • Nominate - Zginder 2008-07-19T02:13Z (UTC)
  • Comment the Shepard-Risset glissando is a notable acoustic illusion, and hard to find elsewhere. The dial tone is much simpler, however: What makes it special? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:05, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Where in the criteria does it say the recording must be special? Zginder 2008-07-23T02:27Z (UTC)
  • Perhaps the question is, why should this recording be featured? I could imagine a sound collage of dial tones from all around the world being featured. So perhaps the criteria should be "Content. The recording content is noteworthy, interesting, engaging and useful for academic study", which in this case would not be the case. -- SamuelWantman 06:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral Should be longer, at least. And I'm on the fence about whether it's distinctive enough to be encyclopedic. Should we treat this type of sound as analogous to featured vector graphics? DurovaCharge! 08:04, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If we can get it a bit longer, then we could look into it further. There may well be a case for its inclusion, but the case would have to be explicitly made. But it's not going to happen when the recording is less than a second long. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Not promoted --MZMcBride (talk) 16:13, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Audio files of bird calls are useful for identification and this is a fairly long recording of the song. Common species in North America, but exotic to the rest of the world. Recorded Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada -- 2007 May by Mdf.



Promoted Turdus-migratorius-003.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 21:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An important speech. Appears at George W. Bush's first term as President of the United States and September 11, 2001 attacks.


Promoted GWBush Oval Office Address 20010911-1-.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a famous speech, marking the start of World War 2. The recording is currently used, along with a transcript, in Neville Chamberlain. The quality isn't perfect, but it's the best version we've got (or are going to get) and it's easy to understand what he's saying. As a historically significant, good quality recording, this deserved to be a featured sound. I have put the transcript on Wikisource - Wikisource:War with Germany declared.



Promoted Chamberlain-war-declaration.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:46, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This phonograph cylinder recording is our only recording of traditional Papua New Guinean folk song, and it is unlikely we'll get another. Hence, this is an important window onto the culture and music of Papua New Guinea that... really is a unique opportunity for most of us Westerners. By the way, for anyone confused by the description: German New Guinea and Papua were combined into one territory after WWI, hence Papua New Guinea.

Used in: Phonograph cylinder, Culture of Papua New Guinea, Music of Papua New Guinea



Promoted Ujangong.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:46, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is a pre-Edison featured sound. I bet no-one was expecting that! This was not originally intended as a recording. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created his device as a sort of early oscillograph, but in the last few months, it has been discovered that it is possible to play them back anyway. The press release revealing this surprising turn of events came out in March.


It also forces me to apologise for WP:Featured sound candidates/Israel In Egypt. While I had reliable sources saying it was the earliest known surviving music, well, that's the trouble with that word "known". While Israel in Egypt remains the earliest surviving phonograph cylinder recording of music - and the earliest surviving intentional recording of music, if someone feels this new discovery should replace it, do open a delist nomination. I think it still has merit as a featured sound, but I'll argue the case there, not in a different nom.

So, again, I apologise for not being fully up to date, and I hope you'll enjoy the surprise of a pre-Edison sound file as much as I did. Thanks to User:Rama for pointing me to this. More information is available at [6].



Promoted Au Clair de la Lune (1860).ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A pretty good recording of a patriotic song, eventually our national anthem, including a verse that is not heard in present times. Another astonishing fact is the recording was done by Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of American President Woodrow Wilson; the recording appears in Francis Scott Key (he penned the lyrics to our anthem), The Star-Spangled Banner and Margaret Woodrow Wilson, and the recording came from the Internet Archive.


Promoted MargaretWoodrowWilson-TheStarSpangledBanner.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

N.B. - I've switched it from MargaretWoodrowWilson-TheStarSpangledBanner2.ogg to MargaretWoodrowWilson-TheStarSpangledBanner.ogg, as MargaretWoodrowWilson-TheStarSpangledBanner2.ogg never got the chance to be voted on due to a typo. There was a slight miscommunication. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:41, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Appears in article Wow! signal, and was recorded by SETI in 1977. It is particularly important as it is the only sound captured to date that might be of alien origin.



Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a wealth of pronunciations in Commons that supports the use of Wiktionary and Wikipedia. It is relevant to know how a name is pronounced natively, this can help people when they talk about a person who is from a country that is foreign to them. This name is typically mispronounced.



Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beethoven's music is amazing - I'd call him my favorite classical composer - and this piece is just... great. We need some Beethoven Featured Sounds, and this is my suggestion.

At least one of the files is used in each of the following articles:



Promoted all, as set - Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:42, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a bit of a procedural nomination: The first movement of "Spring" is already a featured sound, however, I think it's better to have the whole thing, instead of a sample for compositions of this type. Obviously, this doesn't mean we can't have extracts as featured sounds, but I don't see any reason why we can't have complete works either.

What I propose we do is have a new section: Multi-part works, which will give links to a subpage of the Featured sounds portal setting out the full work. This is probably a better solution than the "symbolic" promotion of only one part of a longer work, when there is no particular reason to single out that one part.

These are used in Vivaldi, and The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), possibly elsewhere.

This nomination is rather large. Click here to view
 



Promoted the whole work; this will replace the Spring Movement 1 Allegro. east718 // talk // email // 10:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ignoring subjective reasons (and I do think it's very good), this is folk metal, a major subgenre, it's by a major Bulgarian band, and the band have creative commons licenced it (!!!), making it free for us to use.

It's used on folk metal (only free-use sample on that page), Balkandji, and Probuzhdane.



Promoted Balkandji - Diavolska shterka.ogg east718 // talk // email // 10:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


The following three variations have been combined for greater clarity and continuity. The combined version can be found below.


Combined version of last three:


Full version:

While not necessarily suggested for Featured sound, this sort of combined file can be useful in many cases - for instance, at Theme and variations. However, where space isn't an issue, just combining the last three is ample. - Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:03, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Schubert was an excellent and important composer, and, as such, I am nominating this set as my first piece of featured content. This is a whole impromptu, so nominating it as a set seems like the only reasonable way to do this. It is used in full in:

  1. Franz Schubert
  2. Impromptus (Schubert)

The main theme is also used in:

  1. Rosamunde



Promoted. I'm not sure how you guys fill out the forms at FSC, but the consensus for promotion is rather clear. east718 // talk // email // 10:52, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Our first South Asia nom (as far as I'm aware - certainly, if it passes, these will be our first South American featured sounds). Carmen Miranda, the girl with the tutti-fruitti hat, was one of the earliest and biggest celebrities to come out of Brazil, still well-known today, and a classic singer of samba. These two songs are from her early work in Brazil, before she moved to America, which also places them right at the start of the rise of Brazillian popular music.

While not a set as such, it seems convenient to nominate them together - they provide a wider insight to Carmen Miranda's work that way, and I think they are of similar quality.

Used in Carmen Miranda, Music of Brazil, and Samba.