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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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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

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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Fowke, Edith

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

Brand, Oscar

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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Seeger, Pete

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

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

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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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

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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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

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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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

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 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.

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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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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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Manny, Louise

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

Wilson, James Reginald.

Folk-songs — New Brunswick.

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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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Fowke, Edith

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

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-

Folk songs — Canada.

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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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Barbeau, Marius

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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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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