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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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 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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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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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.
Coal miners — Canada — Songs and music
Coal miners — Songs and music
Folk songs, English — Canada
Ballads, English — Canada.
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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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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
Folk-songs, Canadian
Songs, Canadian.
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Vive la Canadienne : 77 belles chansons du Canada français / Hélène Baillargeon ; préface de Marius Barbeau. 3rd ed. Montréal, Éditions du jour 1962. 157 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 B35 1962
Pelletier-Baillargeon, Hélène, 1932-
Folk songs, French — Québec (Province)
Folk-songs, French — Canada
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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 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.
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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
Folk songs, English — England — History and criticism
Folk dancing, English
Dancing — England
Folk music — England — History and criticism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Public performance rights.
Martin, Kent, pro
Davies, Donna, drt
MacIsaac, Ashley, 1975-
National Film Board of Canada.
Folk songs — Maritime Provinces
Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces — Social life and customs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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