The Cape Breton fiddler / Allister MacGillivray. 1st ed. Sydney : College of Cape Breton Press, 1981. 193 pages : illustrations, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML398 M145
Fiddlers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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The East Coast ceilidh : a look at Atlantic Canada's music scene / by John R. Zinck ; foreword by Joella Foulds. Dominion : Vanmarkin Publications, 1998. 75 pages : ports ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML394 Z77 1997
Musicians — Atlantic Provinces — Biography
Musical groups — Atlantic Provinces.
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Singing towards the future : the story of Portia White / by Lian Goodall ; illustrations by Liz Milkau. Toronto : Napoleon Publishing, 2004. 63 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3930 W587 G646 2004
Contraltos — Canada Biography Juvenile literature.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Catalogue of Canadian composers Rev. and enl. ed. St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1972. 254 pages 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML390 K14
Music — Canada — Bio-bibliography
Composers — Canada — Biography.
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Proceedings of the centennial workshop on ethnomusicology held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 19 to 23, 1967 / edited by Peter Crossley-Holland. Victoria, B.C. : Government of the Province of British Columbia, 1968. 118 pages : illustrations, music.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3797 C951 C397
Sponsored by the Canadian Folk Music Society, Simon Fraser University, and the Department of Extension of the University of British Columbia -- Editorial note. The theme of the Workshop was : Native Indian Music Of The Canadian West Coast and its relationships to the indigenous music of other cultures -- Editorial note.
Crossley-Holland, Peter, 1916-
Simon Fraser University
University of British Columbia. Department of University Extension.
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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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The traditional tunes of the Child ballads; with their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1959-1972. 4 v. : music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3650 T763 B869
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots.
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The singing tradition of Child's popular ballads Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1976. xlvi, 526 pages : music ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3650 S617 B869
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.
Ballads, English — History and criticism
Ballads, Scots — History and criticism
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots.
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A journey in Celtic music : Cape Breton style / Sheldon MacInnes. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997. 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3563.7 M6 M152
Folk music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Musicians — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography.
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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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American balladry from British broadsides: a guide for students and collectors of traditional song / by G. Malcolm Lawis, Jr.. Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1957. xiii, 315 pages; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3553 A512 L425
American ballads and songs — History and criticism
English ballads and songs — History and criticism
Broadsides — History and criticism.
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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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Form in primitive music : an analytical and comparative study of the melodic form of some ancient southern California Indian songs / by Helen H. Roberts. New York : American library of musicology : W. W. Norton, 1933. x, 180 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3547 R631 F723
The songs ... are derived from three sources: Luiseño, Gabrielino presumably mainland although not clearly so and a small number plainly stated to belong to Catalina.--Introd., pages 2. Includes music.
First Nations of North America — Music
Luiseño Indians
Gabrielino Indians
First Nations of North America — California — Santa Catalina island
Shoshonean Indians — Religion and mythology
Musical form
Musical instruments, Primitive.
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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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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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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
Folk songs, English — History and criticism
Ballads, English — History and criticism.
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A history of barbershopping in Atlantic Canada / by Ralph E. Morehouse. Bedford : PAPPYS, 1994. xi, 83 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3516 M838 1994
Subtitle on cover: 1946-1994.
Barbershop singing — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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Am Bron Binn : an Arthurian ballad in Scottish Gaelic / Linda Gowans. East Sussex, England : Linda Gowans, 1992. vii, 126 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML2831 A479 G722 1992
Ballads, Scots — History and criticism
Scots — Songs — Music
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Annual report / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Halifax : The Federation, 1999-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML27 C2 N65
Choral societies — Nova Scotia
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NSCF news / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Armdale : The Federation, 1976-1981. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Published: Halifax, N.S., Sept. 1976- .
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Chorus : Nova Scotia Choral Federation newsletter Halifax : The Federation, 1981-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Membership directory / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Halifax : The Federation, 1999-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML21 C2 N68
Choral societies — Nova Scotia
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Roll back the years : history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy : genesis to 1930 / by Edward B. Moogk. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1975. xii, 443 pages : illustrations, facsims., ports. ; 29 cm. &
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML205 M817
Issued also in French. Includes index.
Sound — Recording and reproducing — History
Sound recordings
Phonograph
Music — Canada — Discography.
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A documentary history of music in Victoria, British Columbia / Robert Dale McIntosh. Victoria, B.C. : University of Victoria, 1981-1994. 2 v. : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML205 M158
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Volume 2 published: Victoria, B.C. : Beach Holme Publishers.
Music — British Columbia — Victoria — History and criticism — Sources
Music — British Columbia — Victoria — Chronology
Victoria (B.C.) — History — Sources.
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National Library of Canada. Music Division
Catalogue of the archival fonds and collections of the Music Division / by Stéphane Jean and Jeannine Barriault. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1994. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML136 O89 N27 1994
Catalogue no. SN3-290/1994--T.pages verso.
Jean, Stéphane, 1964-
Barriault, Jeannine, 1947-
Music — Canada — Archival resources
Musicians — Canada — Archives — Catalogs.
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