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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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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Piano music I / Elaine Keillor, editor = Musique pour piano I / Elaine Keillor, directeur de l'ouvrage. Ottawa : Canadian Musical Heritage Society = Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien, 1983. xxiv pages, 246 pages of music : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M21 P52 1983
Text in English and French. Errata laid in.
Canadian Musical Heritage Society.
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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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Songs of the Hebrides / collected and arr. for voice and pianoforte with Gaelic and English words by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod. new ed. London : Boosey & Co., 1922. 2 v. [2], xxxix, 168 pages, 1 leaf of plate; [2], xxx
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1746 S698 K36
Fraser, Marjory (Kennedy), 1857-1930.
Folksongs,English — Scotland
Folksongs, Gaelic — Scotland
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Irish street ballads / collected and annotated by Colm O'Lochlainn. Adorned with woodcuts from the original broadsheets and with an appreciation by Frank O'Connor. New York : A Corinth book distributed by Citadel Press, 1960. xvi, 235 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1744 I68 L812
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Traditional Celtic violin music of Cape Breton containing strathspeys, reels, jigs, etc. transcribed from the playing of some outstanding exponents of the old style of Highland Scottish fiddling as cultivated in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia : complete with hi / by Kate Dunlay and David Greenburg. Toronto : DunGreen Music, 1996. 158 pages of music : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 T73 1996
Includes index.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fiddle tunes — Scotland
Folk dance music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk dance music — Scotland.
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Folk songs from Newfoundland / collected and edited by Maud Karpeles; with pianoforte accompaniments by R. Vaughan Williams. Complete ed. London : Oxford University Press, 1934-. 2 v. (v, 144 pages; v, 144 pages); 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 K18 F666
Folk songs, English
Ballads, English
Folk songs — Newfoundland.
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Jongleur songs of old Quebec / Interpreted into English by Sir Harold Boulton and Sir Ernest Macmillan. Decorations by Arthur Price. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press 1962. 202 pages illus. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 J79 B233
Folk-songs, French-Canadian — History and criticism
Folk-songs, French-Canadian.
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Folk songs of Prince Edward Island : opus 3 / collected and arranged by Christopher Gledhill. 2nd & rev. ed. Charlottetown : Square Deal Publications, 1975 ,1973. 1 partition (84 pages) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 G555 F666
Folk songs, English — Prince Edward Island.
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Folksongs of the Maritimes / compiled by Kaye Pottie and Vernon Ellis. Halifax : Formac, 1992. x, 182 pages of music : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 F666 M332
Unacc. songs with chord symbol. From the collection of Helen Creighton and other distinguished Maritime folklorists. Includes index. One of the purposes of this book is to serve as a resource for teaching musical concepts and social studies [...]--pages x. Illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. A teacher's guide is also available.
Creighton, Helen, 1899-
Pottie, Kaye
Ellis, Vernon.
Folk songs, English — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, Canadian (English) — Maritime Provinces.
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Folk songs of Quebec (Chansons de Québec) / Edith Fulton Fowke, notes and translations ; Richard Johnston, musical arrangements ; illustrations by Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey. 1st ed. Waterloo, ON. : Waterloo Music, 1957. 93, [3] pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 F666 F784
English and French text.
Fowke, Edith, 1913-
Johnston, Richard, 1917-
Folk-songs, French-Canadian — Québec (Province)
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La Fleur du rosier : chansons folkloriques d'Acadie = Acadian folk songs / recueillies par Helen Creighton ; sous la direction de Ronald Labelle. Sydney : Ottawa : University College of Cape Breton Press ; Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988. xiii, 262 pages : illustrations, music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 F53 1988
Text in English and French. Includes bibliographical references.
Creighton, Helen, 1899-
Labelle, Ronald.
Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk music — Maritime Provinces
Acadians — Music.
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Canadian folk songs for the young / selected by Barbara Cass-Beggs. Vancouver : J.J. Douglas, 1975. 48 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 C38 C35
Words and unacc. melodies, most of which have chord symbols. Songs in languages other than English are accompanied by English translations.
Cass-Beggs, Barbara, 1904-1990.
Children's songs, Canadian
Folk songs — Canada
Canadians — Music
Folk songs, French — Québec (Province)
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Vive la Canadienne : 77 belles chansons du Canada français / Hélène Baillargeon ; préface de Marius Barbeau. 3rd ed. Montréal, Éditions du jour 1962. 157 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 B35 1962
Pelletier-Baillargeon, Hélène, 1932-
Folk songs, French — Québec (Province)
Folk-songs, French — Canada
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Folk songs of French Canada New Haven, Yale university press; etc., etc. 1925. xxii, 216 pages 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 B23 1925
Sapir, Edward, jt. ed
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939, jt. ed.
Yale university. Oliver Baty Cunningham memorial publication fund.
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Old English songs and dances / decorated by W. Graham Robertson. London : Longmans, Green, 1902. [62] pages: col. illustrations, music.; 40 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S M1627 O44 R649
Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1866-1948.
Songs, English
Ballads, English.
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Folk songs of many lands / by Grace Castagnetta and Hendrik Willem van Loon. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1938. 96 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1627 F666 C346
On cover: By Hendrik Willem van Loon and Grace Castagnetta.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
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Folk lullabies / compiled and edited by Barbara Cass-Beggs and Michael Cass-Beggs. New York : Oak Publications, 1969. 128 pages: illustrations, music, ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1627 F666 C343
Cass-Beggs, Barbara, 1904-1990.
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The Alan Mills book of folk songs and ballads / musical arrangements by Arthur Morrow ; illustrations by Ted Graham. Montreal : Whitcombe & Gilmour, 1949. 1 score (93 pages) : illustrations ; 29cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1627 A319 M657
Mills, Alan, 1914-1977
Morrow, Art, 1919-
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Ballads of Britain / edited, and with a foreword, by John Goss ; with an introduction by Sir John Squire ; and decorations by J. Whitehead. London : John Lane, 1937. 140p. : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1611 B188 G677
Ballads — Great Britain
Folk songs — Great Britain
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English folk songs / collected and arranged with pianoforte accompaniment by Cecil J. Sharp. selected ed. London : Novello and Company 19--. 3 v. ([1], xxv, 115; xxiv, 129 pages: music; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1497 E58 S531
Songs and ballads.
Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924.
English folk songs
Ballads, English.
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Miller's Swinton's language lessons : an elementary grammar and composition / by J. Macmillan. 8th rev. ed. Toronto : W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. p.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTSw6
Adapted to the requirements of the public schools. Cf. NUC pe-1956 imprints, v. 353, pages 192.
English language — Grammar
English language — Grammar — Juvenile literature
English language — Examinations, questions, etc.
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