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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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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Singing towards the future : the story of Portia White / by Lian Goodall ; illustrations by Liz Milkau. Toronto : Napoleon Publishing, 2004. 63 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3930 W587 G646 2004
Contraltos — Canada Biography Juvenile literature.
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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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Hill country tunes: instrumental folk music of southwestern Pennsylvania / collected and edited by S.P. Bayard. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1944. xxvii, 8 [122p.] [2]l. of plates. 2 ports; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3551 H645
Folk music — Pennsylvania
Folk music — United States — Instruction and study.
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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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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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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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The Katisha scream / The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Nova Scotia. Halifax : The Society, 1980--.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML1900 G464
Description based on: Volume 2, no. 3 (fall 1981
Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Nova Scotia.
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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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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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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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Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston
Diary of Cotton Mather, 1709-1924 Boston : The Society, 1912.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M37.55 M38c ser. 7 v. 8
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Songs I to English texts / editor, Frederick A. Hall = Chansons I sur des textes anglais / directeur de l'ouvrage, Frederick A. Hall. Ottawa : Canadian Musical Heritage Society = Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien, 1985. xxx pages, 235 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M23 C3 C33 1983
Hall, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1944-
Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien.
Songs, English — Canada — 19th century
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New music horizons : fourth book / McConathy ; illustrated by Jules Gotlieb. New York : Silver Burdett Co., 1953. iv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1997 N442 1953
Music book for Intermediate grades.
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Songs of work and freedom / by Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer. Music arrangements by Kenneth Bray. Art work by Hope Taylor. Chicago, Roosevelt University 1960. 208 pages 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1977 P75 S698 F784
Each song accompanied by notes.
Bray, Kenneth I, arr
Glazer, Joe
Bray, Kenneth, 1919-, arr
Glazer, Joe, jt. ed.
Labor and laboring classes — Songs and music.
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