Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Folk songs
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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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
Folk songs, English — Newfoundland
Ballads, English — Newfoundland
Folk music — Newfoundland.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Helen Creighton : Canada's first lady of folklore / Clary Croft. Halifax : Nimbus, 1999. iv, 297 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C74 C76 1999
Folklorists — Canada — Biography
Women folklorists — Canada Biography
Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs — Maritime Provinces.
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Irish traditional folk songs in Halifax a preliminary study / Debra Meeks. Halifax : International Education Centre, Saint Mary's University, 1982-. 1 booklet (28 pages ; 23 cm), 1 sound cassette (analo
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 I61 #4 - Open Shelf
Title on cassette: The question of the survival of Irish traditional folk songs. Printed material includes transcriptions of songs. Cassette contains folk songs in part for unacc. voice and, in part for voice with guitar acc.; excerpts from interviews.
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). International Education Centre.
Folk songs, Irish — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Irish — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History.
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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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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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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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More folk songs of Canada / Edith Fulton Fowke, Richard Johnston ; illustrations by Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey. Waterloo, ON. : Waterloo Music, 1967. 207 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 M835 F784
For solo voice and piano. Includes chord symbols and index.
Fowke, Edith, 1913-
Johnston, Richard, 1917-
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Musique acadienne du sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse / un projet de la Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse, le Centre acadien de l'Université Sainte-Anne, le Réveil de Pombcoup. Yarmouth, N.-E. : Editions Lescarbot, 1982. 56 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #25 - Vertical File
Music.
Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse
Réveil de Pombcoup
Université Sainte-Anne. Centre acadien.
Folk songs, French — Nova Scotia
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Music.
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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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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.
Bonnell (E. J.) Associates
Robin Hood Flour Mills.
Folk songs, English — Newfoundland.
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Nine ethnic folk songs : for S.S.A.B / collected by Helen Creighton ; arranged by Eunice Sircom. Toronto : G.V. Thompson, 1977. score 50 pages : 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.301 #30 - Vertical File
All selections except no. 1 & 2 arr. for chorus SSAB with piano acc.; no. 1 & 2 arr. for unison chorus with piano acc.; no. 1 & 6 arr. for chorus SSAB with acc. for rehearsal only. Words in English, except no. 1 with words in French. Include
Choruses (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied
Choruses (Unison) with piano
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs — Nova Scotia.
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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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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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Old-time songs of Newfoundland / compiled by Gerald S. Doyle. 3rd ed. St. John's, Nfld. : G.S. Doyle, 1955. 88 pages : illustrations, music; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #32 - Vertical File
Cover title. Advertising matter included in paging. Unacc. melodies.
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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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Roundelays. Folk dances and games collected in Canada and New England Ottawa, Queen's Printer, 1958. 104 pages 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN2 C21 A2 no.151
Folk-songs, Canadian
Games with music.
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Shinum place : folk song, arranged for S.A.T.B. chorus and piano / by Dennis Farrell. Waterloo, Ont. : Waterloo Music Co., 1974. score 11 pages : 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #24 - Vertical File
Words from H. Creighton's Maritime folk songs, Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1962, c1961. Arranger resides in Canada.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs — Atlantic Provinces.
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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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