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MacGillivray, Allister, -1948

Songs from the Mira / all songs composed by Allister MacGillivray; scored for piano by John C. O'Donnell and Alan Feeney.  Cape Breton: Sea-Cape Music Ltd., 2001. 141 pages of music : illustrations; 31 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.543 #9 - Vertical File

Words also printed as text following each song.; An anthology of original songs by Cape Breton composer Allister MacGillivray — from cover.; Includes index.

Popular music—Canada
Folk songs, English—Nova Scotia—Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)—Songs and music.

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Twenty-one folksongs from Prince Edward Island / Edward D. Ives, Editor.  Orono, Me. : Northeast Folklore Society, 1974. 87 pages : 1 map, music; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #13 - Vertical File

Ives, Edward D.

Folk songs, English — Prince Edward Island

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Recorder ensemble series: Canadian folk songs New Westminister, B.C. : Empire Music Publishers 19--. xx, 14 pages; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #25 - Vertical File

Folk songs, English — Canada
Recorder music

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Five tunes from Nova Scotia and France / arranged for descant recorder with very easy piano accompaniments by Yvonne Enoch.  Schoot ed. London : Schott & Co., 1970. 4, 8 pages; music; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #13 - Vertical File

Enoch, Yvonne

Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia
Folk songs, French — France

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph

The Penguin book of English folk songs : from the Journal of the Folk Song Society and the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society / Selected and edited by R. Vaughan Williams & A.L. Lloyd.  Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1959. 128 pages.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #1 - Vertical File

Q18. Unacc. melodies.

Lloyd, A. L. (Albert Lancaster), 1908-

Folk songs, English.

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Old-time songs and poetry of Newfoundland : songs of the people from the days of our forefathers 5th ed. St. John's, Nfld. : G.S. Doyle, 1978. 64 pages : music; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #31 - Vertical File

Cover title. Collection compiled by Gerald S. Doyle. Advertising matter included in paging.

Folk songs, English — Newfoundland
Canadian poetry (English) — Newfoundland.

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph

English folk-songs / by R. Vaughan Williams.  English Folk Dance Society, -. 16 pages; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #7 - Vertical File

Folk songs, English — England — History and criticism

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Sing together New York : Girl Scouts, 1936. 96 pages; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #5 - Vertical File

Designed for leaders of recreational music.

Folk songs, English — United States
Girl scouts — Songs and music

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Songs of Newfoundland / Bennett Brewing.  St. John's : Bennett Brewing 19--. 32 pages; 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.154 #10 - Vertical File

Songs taken from The Gerald S. Doyle Song Book.

Bennett Brewing Company.

Folksongs,English — Newfoundland.

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Newfoundlanders, sing! : A collection of favourite Newfoundland folk songs / compiled by Omar Blondahl ; ill. by Jane Haynes.  St. John's, Nfld. : Published for Robin Hood Flour Mills by E.J. Bonnell Associates, 1964. 120 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.154 #5 - Vertical File

Words and unacc. melodies, some with chord symbols.

Blondahl, Omar, 1923-

Bonnell (E. J.) Associates
Robin Hood Flour Mills.

Folk songs, English — Newfoundland.

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Jones, Trevor

Come awa' dear old Granny : a Cape Breton ballad / Trevor Jones.  Oakville, Ont. : Harmuse Publications, 1974. score 6 pages : 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.81 #16 - Vertical File

For chorus SATB and piano. Composer Canadian.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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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.

Johnston, Richard, 1917-

Folk songs, English — Canada
Folk-songs, French — Canada
Folk songs, English — United States.

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Karpeles, Maud

An introduction to English folk song London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1973. viii, 120 pages : facsim., music. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3652 A531 K18

Discography: pages [115]-116. Includes index.

Folk songs, English — History and criticism.

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Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James)

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

Dean-Smith, Margaret

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

Fowke, Edith

Lumbering songs from the northern woods / by Edith Fowke. Tunes transcribed by Norman Cazden.  Austin : Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press, 1970. xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1977 L8 L957 F784

Unacc. melodies.

Lumbermen — Songs and music
Folk songs, English — Ontario
Folk music — Ontario.

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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

Thomas, Amby

Songs & stories from Deep Cove, Cape Breton / as remembered by Amby Thomas ; edited by Ron MacEachern ; illustrated by Ellison Robertson.  Sydney : College of Cape Breton Press, 1979. 49 pages : illustrations, port. ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 T454

The songs; words and unacc. melodies.

MacEachern, Ron, 1952-

Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.

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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

Karpeles, Maud.

Folk songs, English
Ballads, English
Folk songs — Newfoundland.

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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

Gledhill, Christopher.

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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Karpeles, Maud

Folk songs from Newfoundland / collected and edited by Maud Karpeles.  London : Faber and Faber, 1971. 340 pages : map. ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 F666 K18

And now the fields are green a collection of coal mining sons in Canada / compiled by John C. D'Donnell.  Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1992. 1 score (229 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 C652 1992

Unacc. melodies with chord symbols. Words also printed separately. Includes commentary.

O'Donnell, John C., 1935-

Coal miners — Canada — Songs and music
Coal miners — Songs and music
Folk songs, English — Canada
Ballads, English — Canada.

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Williams, Iolo Aneurin

English folk-song and dance / by Iolo A. Williams.  London ; New York etc. : Longmans, Green and co, 1935. 2 pagesl., vii-xv, 200 pages : illus. (music) ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1627 E58 W723

Nova Scotia seniors in song. A New Horizons project Halifax : New Horizons Centre 1983. 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1609 N935 S698

Folk songs, English
Folk songs, Mi'kmaq
Folk songs, French
Folk-songs, Gaelic

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