History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United Statesnew ed Boston : C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N.D92
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Pipe bands of Nova Scotia 1898 to 2000 / compiled by Scott Williams. Antigonish : Scott Williams Publishing, 2000. 167, [1] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML980 W55 2000
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia
Pipe bands — Nova Scotia.
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Nova Scotia Kiwanis music festival…
Program
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML76 H17 M98
library has: 1982, 1994.
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The Hank Snow story / Hank Snow with Jack Ownbey and Bob Burris. Urbana, Ill. : Published in association with the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame by University of Illinois Press, 1994. 555 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 S674 A3 1994
Includes index.
Burris, Bob
Ownbey, Jack, 1933-
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
Country musicians — United States — Biography.
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On a personal note / Rita MacNeil ; with Anne Simpson. Toronto : Key Porter Books, 1998. 270 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M169 A3 1998
Includes index.
Folk singers — Canada — Biography.
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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
Songs: pages [95]-299.
Ornstein, Lisa, 1955-
Shaw, John William.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island Folklore.
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Lawrence Doyle: the farmer-poet of Prince Edward Island : a study in local songmaking / by Edward D. Ives. Orono : University of Maine Press, 1971. xviii, 269 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML410 I9 D754 I95
Prince Edward Island — Social life and customs.
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Diamonds in the rough : 25 years with the men of the deeps / written and compiled by Allister MacGillivray. 1st ed. Glace Bay : The Men of the Deeps Music, 1991. xi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML400 M534 M145
Men of the Deeps — History
Men of the Deeps — Biography
Coalition — Songs and music — Nova Scotia.
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Pipers of Nova Scotia : biographical sketches, 1773 to 2000 / compiled by Scott Williams. Antigonish : S. Williams Publishing, 2000. 257, [3] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML399 W727 2000
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia Biography.
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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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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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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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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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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
Folk-songs, English — Great Britain — Bibliography
Folk music — Great Britain — Bibliography.
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Encyclopedia of music in Canada / edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1981. xxix, 1076 pages : illustrations, facisms., ports. ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S ML106 C212
...published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council under their block grant programs; and a grant from the Publications Fund of the University of Toronto Press.--T.pages verso.
Kallmann, Helmut, 1922-
Potvin, Gilles, 1923-
Winters, Kenneth, 1929-
Music — Canada — Dictionaries.
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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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Doane, William Howard, 1831-1915
Silver spray Cincinnati : John Church & co. 159, [1] pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M2198 D613
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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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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
Fraser, Marjory (Kennedy), 1857-1930.
Folksongs,English — Scotland
Folksongs, Gaelic — Scotland
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Irish street ballads / collected and annotated by Colm O'Lochlainn. Adorned with woodcuts from the original broadsheets and with an appreciation by Frank O'Connor. New York : A Corinth book distributed by Citadel Press, 1960. xvi, 235 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1744 I68 L812
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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
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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
Fowke, Edith, 1913-
MacMillan, Keith, 1920-
Folk-songs, Canadian
Folk-songs, French-Canadian
Canadians — Music
Folk songs, French — Québec (Province)
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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
Folk songs, English
Ballads, English
Folk songs — Newfoundland.
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