The first hundred years : a history of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design / by Donald Soucy and Harold Pearse. Fredericton : University of New Brunswick Faculty of Education and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1993. xv, 182 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N331 S68 1993
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University of New Brunswick. Faculty of Education.
Art schools — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Art — Study and teaching (Higher) — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History.
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The Concordia University art index to nineteenth century Canadian periodicals / edited by Hardy George. Montréal : Concordia University, 1981. 304 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N1 C744
Canadian periodicals — Indexes
Art — Indexes
Art — Canada — Indexes.
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Hubbard, Robert Hamilton, 1916- ed
Anthology of Canadian art Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1960. 187 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N.C16 .H86
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Recent British sculpture, an exhibition organized by the British council for Canada, New Zealand and Australia, 1961-1963
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N.B77 .R24
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Dalhousie University song-book Halifax : T.C. Allen. 123 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MW42
M1970 W42
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Union harmony, or British America's sacred vocal musick from the most approved English and American composers, with some original musick on special occasions : to which is prefixed a concise introduction Saint John, N.B.- : 1816-. 296 pages ; 15 x 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MUN3
p.1-14 missing Includes indexes.
Humbert, S
Humbert, Stephen, 1767-1849.
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The nature and effectiveness of music education in Nova Scotia public schools / by Hrvoje Joseph Hrestak. Halifax : 1982. xviii, 323 pages; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MT930 H873
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O, for a thousand tongues to sing : a history of singing schools in early Canada / by Dorothy H. Farquharson. Waterdown, ON. : D.H. Farquharson, 1983. iv, 114 pages : facsims., music ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MT918 F238
Choral singing — Canada — History — 19th century
Choral singing — Instruction and study — Canada.
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Folk songs North America sings a source book for all teachers / by Richard Johnston. Toronto : E.C. Kirby, 1984. xvii, 126 pages, 382 pages of music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MT898 F666 J73
Unacc. melodies in both staff and tonic sol-fa notation. Words mainly in English, some in French, Eskimo, Iroquois and Ojibway with English translations. Compiler Canadian. Includes indexes.
Folk songs, English — Canada
Folk-songs, French — Canada
Folk songs, English — United States.
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Gibbon, John Murray, 1875-1952
Magic of melody London : Dent. 128 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - MLG35
ML3851 or ML440
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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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Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 / John G. Gibson. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xii, 406 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML980 G449 1998
Bagpipe — Scotland — Highlands — History
Bagpipe — Nova Scotia — History
Bagpipe music — History and criticism.
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The organs and organists of the Cathedral Church of All Saints Halifax, Nova Scotia / James Burchill. Halifax : The Author, 2006. 48 pages : col. illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML594 H173 B947 2006
Includes bibliographical references.
All Saints Cathedral (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Organ (Musical instrument) — Canada
Organists — Canada.
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Words & music / Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Don Mills, ON. : Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, 1994-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML5 W66
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.
Music — Canada — Periodicals
Composers — Canada — Periodicals.
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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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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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Maritime music greats : fifty years of hits and heartbreak / Virginia Beaton and Stephen Pedersen. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1992. xvi, 176 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML400 M332 B369
Country musicians — Maritime provinces — Biography
Country music — Maritime Provinces — History and criticism.
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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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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Catalogue of Canadian composers Rev. and enl. ed. St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1972. 254 pages 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML390 K14
Music — Canada — Bio-bibliography
Composers — Canada — Biography.
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The Nova Scotia song collection / compiled and edited by Allister MacGillivray ; scored for piano by John C. O'Donnell. 1st ed. Sydney : Sea Cape Music, 1989. 1 score (iv, 178 pages) : illustrations, ports. ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML385 N935 M145
For voice and piano with chord symbols. Words also printed as text. Includes index, explanatory text, discographies and biographies of composers. Compiler and arr. Canadians.
MacGillivray, Allister, 1948-
O'Donnell, John C., 1935-
Songs — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Songs and music
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Proceedings of the centennial workshop on ethnomusicology held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 19 to 23, 1967 / edited by Peter Crossley-Holland. Victoria, B.C. : Government of the Province of British Columbia, 1968. 118 pages : illustrations, music.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3797 C951 C397
Sponsored by the Canadian Folk Music Society, Simon Fraser University, and the Department of Extension of the University of British Columbia -- Editorial note. The theme of the Workshop was : Native Indian Music Of The Canadian West Coast and its relationships to the indigenous music of other cultures -- Editorial note.
Crossley-Holland, Peter, 1916-
Simon Fraser University
University of British Columbia. Department of University Extension.
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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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The traditional tunes of the Child ballads; with their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1959-1972. 4 v. : music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3650 T763 B869
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots.
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The singing tradition of Child's popular ballads Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1976. xlvi, 526 pages : music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3650 S617 B869
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.
Ballads, English — History and criticism
Ballads, Scots — History and criticism
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots.
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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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