Description
Traditional Folk Songs from the collection of Dr. Helen Creighton with music transcriptions and arrangements, lyrics and accompanying notes.
Produced for the Helen Creighton Folklore Society by Clary Croft, Martha Healy, Mary Knickle and Linda Nicholl.
The folk song collection amassed by Helen Creighton and now housed at the Nova Scotia Archives is one of the richest and most famous in the world. In this book, you will discover 42 songs collected from tradition bearers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
While this book was created with music educators and their students in mind, it is a valuable resource for anyone looking to explore some of the songs Helen collected from a wide range of peoples, including Anglo tradition bearers, Gaelic singers, Black Nova Scotians, early German settlers’ songs from Lunenburg County, Acadian singers, and selections from Helen’s valuable early collection of Mi’kmaw songs.
