Dalhousie University song-book Halifax : T.C. Allen. 123 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MW42
M1970 W42
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Pipe bands of Nova Scotia 1898 to 2000 / compiled by Scott Williams. Antigonish : Scott Williams Publishing, 2000. 167, [1] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML980 W55 2000
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia
Pipe bands — Nova Scotia.
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Dance to the piper : the Highland bagpipe in Nova Scotia / Barry W. Shears. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2008. 239 pages : illustrations, map, ports. ; 23 cm +1 compact disc (digital ; 12 cm)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML980 S539 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bagpipe — Social aspects — Nova Scotia
Bagpipe — Nova Scotia — History
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Nova Scotia Kiwanis music festival…
Program
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML76 H17 M98
library has: 1982, 1994.
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The Hank Snow story / Hank Snow with Jack Ownbey and Bob Burris. Urbana, Ill. : Published in association with the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame by University of Illinois Press, 1994. 555 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 S674 A3 1994
Includes index.
Burris, Bob
Ownbey, Jack, 1933-
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
Country musicians — United States — Biography.
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On a personal note / Rita MacNeil ; with Anne Simpson. Toronto : Key Porter Books, 1998. 270 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M169 A3 1998
Includes index.
Folk singers — Canada — Biography.
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Brìgh an Òrain = A story in every song : the songs and tales of Lauchie MacLellan / translated and edited by John Shaw ; airs transcribed by Lisa Ornstein from field recordings ; foreword by Alistair MacLeod. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xxvii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M165 B85 2000
Songs: pages [95]-299.
Ornstein, Lisa, 1955-
Shaw, John William.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island Folklore.
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Joe Scott, the woodsman-songmaker Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1978. xxvii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML410 I9 S427 I95
Composers — Maine — Biography
Lumbermen — Maine — Biography
Lumbermen — Songs and music.
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Larry Gorman : the man who made the songs / Edward D. Ives. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1964. xv, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML410 I9 G671 I95
Includes index.
Composers — Canada — Biography.
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Lawrence Doyle: the farmer-poet of Prince Edward Island : a study in local songmaking / by Edward D. Ives. Orono : University of Maine Press, 1971. xviii, 269 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML410 I9 D754 I95
Prince Edward Island — Social life and customs.
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Diamonds in the rough : 25 years with the men of the deeps / written and compiled by Allister MacGillivray. 1st ed. Glace Bay : The Men of the Deeps Music, 1991. xi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML400 M534 M145
Men of the Deeps — History
Men of the Deeps — Biography
Coalition — Songs and music — Nova Scotia.
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Pipers of Nova Scotia : biographical sketches, 1773 to 2000 / compiled by Scott Williams. Antigonish : S. Williams Publishing, 2000. 257, [3] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML399 W727 2000
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia Biography.
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The East Coast ceilidh : a look at Atlantic Canada's music scene / by John R. Zinck ; foreword by Joella Foulds. Dominion : Vanmarkin Publications, 1998. 75 pages : ports ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML394 Z77 1997
Musicians — Atlantic Provinces — Biography
Musical groups — Atlantic Provinces.
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Colonial ballads / by Hugh Anderson with illustrations by Ronald G. Edwards. 1st ed. Ferntree Gully, Australia : Rams Skull Press, 1955. 155 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3770 C719 A549
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American balladry from British broadsides: a guide for students and collectors of traditional song / by G. Malcolm Lawis, Jr.. Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1957. xiii, 315 pages; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3553 A512 L425
American ballads and songs — History and criticism
English ballads and songs — History and criticism
Broadsides — History and criticism.
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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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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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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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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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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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The lighthouse collection of newly composed fiddle tunes / all tunes by Paul Stewart Cranford. Englishtown : Cranford Publications, 1996. vii, 101 pages + 1 compact disc.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 C891 L72 1996
CD transferred to SMI Division.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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