By: Creighton, Helen. With musical transcription and chord symbols by Kenneth Peacock.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher:
Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1972
Seller ID: 21906
ISBN: 0070929629
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good reading copy only.
214 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). "In the secluded farms and fishing villages of the Maritimes are the people who have kept Canada's favourite folk songs alive over the years. It was to them that Helen Creighton turned during her extensive search for the native songs that have been passed through generations of Maritimers. With musical transcriptions and chord symbols by Kenneth Peacock, the resulting collection of more than one hundred lyrics faithfully retains the authentic rythms and colour of Canada's Atlantic coast. Haunting Negro spirituals of Nova Scotia, simple Scottish love so...
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