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McCawley, Stuart

A Book of songs and come-all-ye of Cape Breton and Newfoundland Glace Bay : Printed by Brodie Printing Service, 1929-. 64 pages ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 M12 B64

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

A sigh and a wish Helen Creighton's Maritimes Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, 2001. 1 videocassette : 74 minutes ; Dolby Surround, stereo.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C7 S54 2001 - Video

Cazden, Norman

American folksongs for piano / Norman Cazden.  Stamford, Conn. : Jack Spratt Music 1962. [2], 64 pages: music; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M38.5 A512 C386

Piano music, Juvenile
Folk-songs, American.

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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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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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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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Botsford, Florence Hudson Topping

Botsford collection of folk songs / compiled and edited by Florence Hudson Botsford.  New York : G. Schirmer Inc. 1935. 77 pages : music; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.323 #1 - Vertical File

Folk songs

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MacLellan, Lauchie

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

Fowke, Edith

Canada's story in song / by Edith Fowke and Alan Mills ; piano accompaniments by Helmut Blume ; music drawn by J.R. Brooks ; illus. and cover by Leo Rampen.  Toronto : W.J. Gage, 1961. 230 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 C212 F784

Mills, Alan, 1912-1977.

Folk-songs, Canadian
Songs, Canadian.

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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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Chansons acadiennes de Pubnico et Grand-{83}tang: tir{nonjoin}es de la collection Helen Creighton = Acadian songs from Pubnico and Grand-{83}tang: from the Helen Creighton Collection / sous la direction de/ edited by Ronald Labelle.  Dartmouth : Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2008. 96 pages: ports.; 23 cm. +1 compact disc (12 cm.)

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.7 F73 C914 2008

Compact disc includes original versions of songs. Includes bibliographical references.

Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, French — Nova Scotia
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore
French Canadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore.

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Chansons d'Acadie. 1- série / recueillies et publiées par Daniel Boudreau et Anselme Chiasson.  Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal : Réparation, 1942-. score v. : illustrations.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #33 - Vertical File

1. serie, 3. éd. Unacc. melodies. Présentation signed: Père Anselme et Frère Daniel, capucins. Text reproduced from typewritten copy. Préface, "L'Acadie chante", by Marius Barbeau.

Boudreau, Daniel
Chiasson, Anselme, 1911-

Acadians — Music
Folk songs.

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Johnston, Richard

Chansons de Québec : Melody edition : notes and translations / Edith Fulton Fowke ; musical arrangements : Richard Johnston.  Waterloo, Ont. : Waterloo Music Co., 1973. 89 pages : illustrations.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.303 #5 - Vertical File

Cover title: Chansons de Québec, folk songs of quebec.

Fowke, Edith, 1913-

Folk songs — Canada.

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Chantons ensemble: Recueil de chants pour les ecolés / approuvé et distribué par le Ministère de l'Education du Nouveau-Brunsiwck.  ed. 1957 Hyacinthe, Que. : La Bonne Chanson, 1957. 36 pages; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #27 - Vertical File

School song-books
Folk songs, French

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Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

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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Barbeau, Marius

Come a singing! : Canadian folk-songs / by Marius Barbeau, Arthur Lismer, Arthur Bourinot.  Ottawa : Queen's Printer, 1959. 59 pages : illustrations.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #12 - Vertical File

At head of title: Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources. Mines and Geology Branch. First published 1947; reprinted 1959. Unaccompanied melodies. English words.

Bourinot, Arthur S. (Arthur Stanley), 1893-1969
Lismer, Arthur, 1885-1969.

Folk songs — Canada.

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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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Cass-Beggs, Barbara

Eight songs of Saskatchewan Toronto, Canadian Music Sales Corp., 1963. 15 pages 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #7 - Vertical File

Folk-songs, Canadian.

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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

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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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

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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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

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.

Lullabies
Folk songs.

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