The ballad mongers : rise of the modern folk song / Oscar Brand. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1962. 240 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3551 B188 B817
Folk-songs, American — History and criticism.
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Form in primitive music : an analytical and comparative study of the melodic form of some ancient southern California Indian songs / by Helen H. Roberts. New York : American library of musicology : W. W. Norton, 1933. x, 180 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3547 R631 F723
The songs ... are derived from three sources: Luiseño, Gabrielino presumably mainland although not clearly so and a small number plainly stated to belong to Catalina.--Introd., pages 2. Includes music.
First Nations of North America — Music
Luiseño Indians
Gabrielino Indians
First Nations of North America — California — Santa Catalina island
Shoshonean Indians — Religion and mythology
Musical form
Musical instruments, Primitive.
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The incompleat folksinger / by Pete Seeger. Edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972. viii, 596 pages : illus. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3545 S451 I37
Folk music — History and criticism
Folk songs — History and criticism.
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National music / by Ralph Vaughan Williams. First edition. London ; New York etc. : Oxford University Press, 1934. ix, 146 pages : illustrations (music) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3545 N277 W726
National music
Folk songs — History and criticism
Music, Origin of.
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English folk song, some conclusions / by Cecil J. Sharp. 2nd ed. London : Novello & Co., Ltd. : The Wessex Press, 1936. xvi, 143 pages: music; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3545 E58 S531
Folk songs, English — History and criticism
Ballads, English — History and criticism.
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A history of barbershopping in Atlantic Canada / by Ralph E. Morehouse. Bedford : PAPPYS, 1994. xi, 83 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3516 M838 1994
Subtitle on cover: 1946-1994.
Barbershop singing — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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Am Bron Binn : an Arthurian ballad in Scottish Gaelic / Linda Gowans. East Sussex, England : Linda Gowans, 1992. vii, 126 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML2831 A479 G722 1992
Ballads, Scots — History and criticism
Scots — Songs — Music
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Newsletter 198--.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML28 H173 H255
Folk music, Canadian — Periodicals
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The Halifax Symphony Orchestra subscription season programmes Halifax : 1953-.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML28 H17 S98
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Programmes Halifax : Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, 1969-.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML28 A881
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Annual report / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Halifax : The Federation, 1999-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML27 C2 N65
Choral societies — Nova Scotia
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NSCF news / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Armdale : The Federation, 1976-1981. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Published: Halifax, N.S., Sept. 1976- .
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Chorus : Nova Scotia Choral Federation newsletter Halifax : The Federation, 1981-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Membership directory / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Halifax : The Federation, 1999-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML21 C2 N68
Choral societies — Nova Scotia
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Atlantic Federation of Musicians
Purchaser of musicians services handbook and monthly appointments / Atlantic Federation of Musicians. Halifax : The Federation 1983. 1 v. (loose-leaf); 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML21 A881
Musicians — Nova Scotia — Directories
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Roll back the years : history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy : genesis to 1930 / by Edward B. Moogk. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1975. xii, 443 pages : illustrations, facsims., ports. ; 29 cm. &
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML205 M817
Issued also in French. Includes index.
Sound — Recording and reproducing — History
Sound recordings
Phonograph
Music — Canada — Discography.
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A documentary history of music in Victoria, British Columbia / Robert Dale McIntosh. Victoria, B.C. : University of Victoria, 1981-1994. 2 v. : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML205 M158
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Volume 2 published: Victoria, B.C. : Beach Holme Publishers.
Music — British Columbia — Victoria — History and criticism — Sources
Music — British Columbia — Victoria — Chronology
Victoria (B.C.) — History — Sources.
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National Library of Canada. Music Division
Catalogue of the archival fonds and collections of the Music Division / by Stéphane Jean and Jeannine Barriault. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1994. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML136 O89 N27 1994
Catalogue no. SN3-290/1994--T.pages verso.
Jean, Stéphane, 1964-
Barriault, Jeannine, 1947-
Music — Canada — Archival resources
Musicians — Canada — Archives — Catalogs.
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Nova Scotia. Continuing Education Program. Fine Arts Service
Sheet music & reference books, 1974-75 / Fine Arts Service, Continuing Education Program. Halifax : Fine Arts Service, Continuing Education Program, 1975-. [68] pages, [12] pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML128 V7 S541
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Check-list of recorded songs in the English language in the Archive of American folk song to July, 1940. Alphabetical list with geographical index Washington, D.C., 1942. 3 v. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML128 S3 L697 C514
The collaborative handiwork of the Library of Congress and the Library of Congress project of the Work projects administration, which was a unit of the Public activities program of the Community service programs of the Work projects administration for the District of Columbia. cf. Acknowledgments, v. 1, pages 4 1st group
United States. Work Projects Administration (Washington, D. C.)
Folk songs — United States — Discography.
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A guide to English folk song collections, 1822-1952, with an index to their contents, historical annotations, and an introduction / Foreword by Gerald Abraham. Liverpool, University Press, 1954. 120 pages 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML128 F75 G946 D282
Folk-songs, English — Great Britain — Bibliography
Folk music — Great Britain — Bibliography.
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History of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra: the first seven years / by Anthony John Doyle. Ottawa- : Anthony John Doyle-, 1986. iii, 121 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML1213 D754
Honours essay - Carleton University, Ottawa.
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Encyclopedia of music in Canada / edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1981. xxix, 1076 pages : illustrations, facisms., ports. ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S ML106 C212
...published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council under their block grant programs; and a grant from the Publications Fund of the University of Toronto Press.--T.pages verso.
Kallmann, Helmut, 1922-
Potvin, Gilles, 1923-
Winters, Kenneth, 1929-
Music — Canada — Dictionaries.
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MacLean Collection : music collected by Joseph W. MacLean, Washabuck Iona : Highland Village, 1 v. (various pagings) : port. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 M34
Highland Village archival finding aid.— Cover. The MacLean Collection contains music collected by the late Joseph W. MacLean of Washabuck, Nova Scotia. Joe MacLean was an accomplished fiddler who gathered one of the most significant collections of traditional Scottish fiddle music in the world.
Fiddle tunes — Catalogs
Iona (N.S.)
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Jerry Holland's collection of fiddle tunes 282 tunes from the repertoire of Jerry Holland / edited by Paul Stewart Cranford. Rev. & expanded ed. Little River : Cranford Publications, 1992. 84 pages : ports. ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 H734 1992
For unacc. violin. Cover title. A compilation of traditional and original melodies--Cover.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fiddle tunes — Scotland
Fiddle tunes — Ireland
Folk dance music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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