Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Folk songs
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.
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Songs and sayings of an Ulster childhood / by Alice Kane ; edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 254 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR148 B44 S698
Includes index.
Folk songs, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Children's poetry, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Storytellers — Canada — Biography
Belfast (Northern Ireland) — Social life and customs.
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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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Songs of Miramichi / by Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson. Fredericton, N.B. : Brunswick Press, 1968, 1970 printing. 330 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 S698 M285
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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.
Folksongs,English — Newfoundland.
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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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Songs of the Newfoundland outports Ottawa R. Duhamel 1965. 3 v. photos. 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN2 C21 A2 no.197
Ballads, Canadian — Newfoundland
Folk songs, Canadian — Newfoundland.
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Songs remembered in exile traditional Gaelic songs from Nova Scotia recorded in Cape Breton and Antigonish County in 1937 with an account of the causes of Hebridean Emigration, 1790-1835 / edited by John L. Campbell ; tunes mostly transcribed by Séamus Ennis. Aberdeen, Scotland : Aberdeen University Press, 1990. xii, 284 pages of music : illustrations, ports. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 S698 C188
Gaelic words with English translations also printed as text. Errata slip inserted.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Antigonish County.
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Songs steeltowners sing, 1883-1983 : 100 songs for 100 years / Woody MacDonald. Trenton : the Author, 1983. 42 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.295 #3 - Vertical File
Steel industry — Songs and music
Steel industry and trade — Nova Scotia — Trenton
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Trenton
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Studies in the Scottish Gaelic folk-song tradition in Canada / Dunkly, Nancy Rose. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1985. 124 pages; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.305 #9 - Vertical File
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Teansadoir / Padraig O. Broin. Toronto : Padraig O. Broin, 1954-.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.343 #27a-c - Vertical File
Text in Gaelic.
Gaelic language — Periodicals
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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The Airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles .. / edited by S. Fraser. Edinburgh : S.Fraser, 1816. 120 pages : music ; 37 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S M1746 F842 1816
For piano, harp, organ, or violoncello. Engraved title page.
Fraser, S. (Simon), 1773-1852.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Scotland — Highlands — Instrumental settings
Folk music — Scotland — Highlands.
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The Airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles .. / edited by S. Fraser. Sydney : P.S. Cranford, 1982. xii, 98 pages of music, [99]-113 pages : facsims. ; 31 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S M1746 F842 1982
For piano, harp, organ, or violoncello. Title on cover of hardbound edition: Captain S. Fraser of Knockie's collection of Highland music. Includes indexes with titles in Gaelic and English.
Fraser, S. (Simon), 1773-1852.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Scotland — Highlands — Instrumental settings
Folk music — Scotland — Highlands.
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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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The ballad mongers : rise of the modern folk song / Oscar Brand. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1962. 240 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3551 B188 B817
Folk-songs, American — History and criticism.
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The Barra settlement in Grand Narrows, Cape Breton : 1804-1904 / Marian Rothe. Sudbury, ON. : 1984. 79 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 G751 R845 - Open Shelf
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Grand Narrows (N.S.) — History.
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The incompleat folksinger / by Pete Seeger. Edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972. viii, 596 pages : illus. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3545 S451 I37
Folk music — History and criticism
Folk songs — History and criticism.
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The night in the kitchen collection music for piano, fiddle, guitar, flute, Highland and Lowland bagpipes, and voice / compiled, scored and edited by Matthew Patrick Cook. Dominion : Vanmarkin Publications, 1996. 118 pages of music : ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1600 C3 N55 1996
Includes instrumental and vocal works, chiefly with chord symbols for guitar. Compiler Canadian.
Folk dance music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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The Penguin book of Canadian folk songs Harmondsworth, Eng., ; Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1973. 224 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 P398 F784
Fowke, Edith, 1913-
MacMillan, Keith, 1920-
Folk-songs, Canadian
Folk-songs, French-Canadian
Canadians — Music
Folk songs, French — Québec (Province)
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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-
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Thirteen Canadian folksongs for piano solo / Stephen Brown. 1984. 18 pages : music; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #22 - Vertical File
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This land is your land / by woody Guthrie; arranged by Don Wright for S. A. T. B. with four trumpets optional. Toronto, Ont. : Gordon V. Thompson, 1958. 11 pages : music; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.297 #17 - Vertical File
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Traditional singers and songs from Ontario Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, 1965. viii, 210 pages illus., ports. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3563 T763 F784
Folk-songs, Canadian — Ontario
Singers, Canadian
Folk-songs, Canadian — Discography.
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Traditional songs from Nova Scotia / collected by Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1987, 1950. xvi, 284 pages of music ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 C86 T67 1987
Unacc. melodies. H. Creighton, Canadian. Includes index.
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia.
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Twelve folk songs from Nova Scotia / coll. by Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior. London : Novello, 1940. 41 pages ; 30.5 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 C86 T91
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