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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

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

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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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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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

Meeks, Debra

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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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

Sircom, Eunice

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

Creighton, Helen, 1899-

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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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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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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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.

Campbell, John Lorne, 1906-

Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Antigonish County.

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MacDonald, Woody

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

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.

Broin, Padraig O.

Gaelic language — Periodicals
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island

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Rothe, Marian

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

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

Creighton, Helen

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.

Senior, Doreen H.

Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia.

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Creighton, Helen

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

Senior, Doreen H.

Folk songs — Nova Scotia

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