The Nova Scotia song collection / compiled and edited by Allister MacGillivray ; scored for piano by John C. O'Donnell. 1st ed. Sydney : Sea Cape Music, 1989. 1 score (iv, 178 pages) : illustrations, ports. ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML385 N935 M145
For voice and piano with chord symbols. Words also printed as text. Includes index, explanatory text, discographies and biographies of composers. Compiler and arr. Canadians.
MacGillivray, Allister, 1948-
O'Donnell, John C., 1935-
Songs — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Songs and music
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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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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 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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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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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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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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MacLean Collection : music collected by Joseph W. MacLean, Washabuck Iona : Highland Village, 1 v. (various pagings) : port. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 M34
Highland Village archival finding aid.— Cover. The MacLean Collection contains music collected by the late Joseph W. MacLean of Washabuck, Nova Scotia. Joe MacLean was an accomplished fiddler who gathered one of the most significant collections of traditional Scottish fiddle music in the world.
Fiddle tunes — Catalogs
Iona (N.S.)
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New music horizons : fourth book / McConathy ; illustrated by Jules Gotlieb. New York : Silver Burdett Co., 1953. iv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1997 N442 1953
Music book for Intermediate grades.
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Songs of work and freedom / by Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer. Music arrangements by Kenneth Bray. Art work by Hope Taylor. Chicago, Roosevelt University 1960. 208 pages 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1977 P75 S698 F784
Each song accompanied by notes.
Bray, Kenneth I, arr
Glazer, Joe
Bray, Kenneth, 1919-, arr
Glazer, Joe, jt. ed.
Labor and laboring classes — Songs and music.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Miller's Swinton's language lessons : an elementary grammar and composition / by J. Macmillan. 8th rev. ed. Toronto : W.J. Gage & Co., 1881. p.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTSw6
Adapted to the requirements of the public schools. Cf. NUC pe-1956 imprints, v. 353, pages 192.
English language — Grammar
English language — Grammar — Juvenile literature
English language — Examinations, questions, etc.
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Science indoors and out : book one / by C.A.E. Hensley and D.A. Patterson ; revised for Nova Scotia by J.H. Fitch. Toronto : W.J. Gage, 1945. vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTSc2 H39 bk.1
Authorized for use in the public schools of Nova Scotia.
Fitch, J. H. (James Harold)
Patterson, D. A.
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Mack shorthand: a connective-vowel system for everybody Kentville : Mack Pub. Co. 56 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTS4 M153
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Voyager, 3 / Cleda M. Baldwin, J. A. McKeown, F. L. Barrett. Toronto : Copp Clark Pub. Co., 1973. 470 pages : illustrations (part col.) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTR4 V975 B181
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Reading to learn / by Gerald A. Yoakam, William C. Bagley and Philip A. Knowlton. New York : MacMillan Canada, 1935. 2 v. ; illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTR22 Y63 1935
Bagley, William C. (William Chandler), 1874-1946, joint author
Knowlton, Philip Arnold, joint author
Bagley, William C. (William Chandler), 1874-1946
Knowlton, Philip Arnold, 1887-
Readers and speakers — 1870-
Textbooks
Reading — Textbooks
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A course of elementary reading in science and literature 21st ed. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1852. xvi, 362 pages : illus. drawings and diagrs. 18.5 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTR22 M32 1852
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A course of elementary reading in science and literature 11th ed. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1842. xvi, 362 pages : illus. drawing and diagrs. 18.5 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTR22 M32 1842
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