Archives Catalogue

Sir Thomas Beecham : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 8
File
[195-?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Sir Roger de Coverley for string quartet

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 8
Item
1923

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of "Sir Roger de Coverley" for string quartet, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Sing-a-long Jubilee

MS-4-250, Box 79, Folder 37
File
1 June 1967

Part of Wamboldt-Waterfield Photographic Collection

Sing freedom : exploring and celebrating music of African Heritage : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, Box2, Folder 24
File
March 1, 2008

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with Linda Carvery, Bruce Phillips, and Doug Dean. The concert was in support of St. George's YouthNet Outreach and St. Patrick's-Alexandra School Music Department. It was held at St. Matthew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sing a new song with the First Baptist Girls' Choir of Truro : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, Box 2, Folder 27
File
May 4, 2001 - May 6, 2001

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains a poster for a series of three concerts by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with the First Baptist Girls' Choir at Trinity St. Stephen's Church in Amherst, Nova Scotia (May 4, 2001); St. Andrew's United Church in Halifax Nova Scotia (May 5, 2001); and the First Baptist Church in Truro, Nova Scotia (May 6, 2001).

Sing a jubilant song with Soundtrax : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, Box 2, Folder 35
File
May 26, 2007

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains two copies of a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with Soundtrax. The concert was a fundraiser for Phoenix Youth Programs and was held at the Bethany United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sinfonietta

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 29
Item
1927

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Leoš Janáček's "Sinfonietta" for orchestra, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Sinfonia No. 79

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 24
Item
1965

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Haydn's Symphony No. 79, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Sinfonia No. 78

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 25
Item
1965

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Haydn's Symphony No. 78, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Sinfonia No. 77

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 26
Item
1965

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Haydn's Symphony No. 77, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Silent movies : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 26
File
1992

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains nine annotated copies of "Silent Movies," a composition by Paul Cram in two parts written at concert pitch. The reverse side of one of the copies includes a set list for "Talk Show," which was part of the 1997 Open Waters Festival.

Cram, Paul

Silent movies : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 4, Folder 12
File
1992

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains concert, Bb and Eb parts for Paul Cram's "Silent Movies," which was recorded by the Benghazi Saxophone Quartet on the CD "On the Lam."

Side steppin' 1 : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 10
Item
[1994]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the score for a composition by Bauer. Bauer divided the instruments into three groups: (1) guitar, oboe, piano, violin; (2) violin, viola, cello, xylophone; and (3) bass clarinet, electric bass, and acoustic bass. The composition alternates between 3/8,4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8, and 12/8 at a tempo of 100 eighth-notes per minute. The score is printed on the back of Bauer's resume.

Bauer, Bob

Sheila's practice session (side B)

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 14
Item
January 13, 1982

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is an audio recording titled "Sheila practice," recorded on January 13, 1981. The recording is on side B of audio cassette.

Sheila's practice session (side A)

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 14
Item
November 1981

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is an audio recording titled "Sheila practice - Nov/81 Joan Patenaude (Erik) Satie," recorded by Sheila Piercey. The recording is on side A of audio cassette.

Sheila's practice session

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 14
File
November 1981 and January 13, 1982

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

File is an audio cassette tape recorded by Sheila Piercey between November 1981 and January 1982.

Sheila's practice Mum & I, March 26, 1978 (side A)

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 7
Item
March 26, 1978

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is an audio recording by Sheila Piercey made on March 26, 1978. The recording is on side A of audio cassette.

Sheila's practice August 1980 (side B)

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 7
Item
August 1980

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is an audio recording by Sheila Piercey made in August 1980. The recording is on side B of audio cassette.

Sheila's concert for the deWolfes

MS-5-20, Box 2, Cassette 46
File
[between 1960 and 1990]

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

File is an audio cassette tape recorded by Sheila Piercey of the opera "Die Fledermaus," undated with handwritten notes on the label inserted in the case that reads:

Side A: Act I Finale - Die Fledermaus, What a joy to be here, Laughing Song, Champagne's Delicious Bubbles, Sing to Love. Act II Finale - Die Fledermaus, Sonia's entrance Merry Widow, Vilia, Love in My Heart, Quite in the modern style, Merry Widow Waltz.

Side B: other surprises." Side B contains an audio recording of Sheila Piercey's recitals, practice sessions, and CBC radio recording between the 1950s and 1970s. She re-recorded those old recordings on April 5, 1989 and April 8, 1990, her thoughts and comments are included.

Sheila, mum, Nan

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 11
File
March 1980

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Sheila Piercey fonds

MS-5-20
Fonds
1950-2010

Fonds consists of records of Sheila Piercey's opera performance activities and music teaching. Record types include primarily sound recordings of recitals, concerts, auditions, practices, rehearsals, radio broadcasts and textual records, including teaching records and various programs from the Dalhousie Glee and Dramatic Society, Dalhousie Tigers, graduation recitals, noon-hour recitals, festivals, opera workshops, and other performances produced by the Dalhousie Department of Music and a small number of documents Sheila collected when she was a student at Dalhousie University.

Piercey, Sheila Kathleen

Sheila Piercey concerts, August & September 1980

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 10
File
August - September, 1980

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

File is an audio cassette tape recorded by Sheila Piercey in 1980. Labelled: for Sheila Piercey concert Sept 17/1980 Dunn Theatre Dalhousie University.

Sheila Piercey audition - October 15, 1954

MS-5-20, Box 2, Reel 1
Item
October 15, 1954

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is a reel-to-reel recording of Sheila Piercey singing "The Jewel Song" from Faust(opera) in an audition.

Shéhérazade : trois poèmes de Tristan Klingsor

MS-2-26, Box 7, Folder 11
Item
1914

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Ravel's "Shéhérazade," annotated in pencil by Anthony Pugh.

Shawnigan Summer School of the Arts

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1976 - 1977

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains correspondence and notes regarding Stephen Pedersen's involvement with the summer school.

Share the dream, a musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Desmond

MS-5-22, OS Box 21, Folder 60
Item
January 13-14, 2006

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a poster for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, "Sharing the Dream," at Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The concert included performances by Jackie Richardson, Walter Borden, Dutch Robinson, and others.

Share the dream, a musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Archpriest George Anthony Francis

MS-5-22, OS Box 21, Folder 63
Item
January 19, 2008

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a poster for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, "Share the Dream," featuring Walter Borden, Jackie Richardson, and Jordan Croucher at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.

Share the dream, a musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Richard Preston

MS-5-22, OS Box 21, Folder 59
Item
January 22, 2005

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a poster for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert. The concert featured performances by George Elliott Clarke, Shauntay Grant, Novelee Buchan, and others.

Share the dream, a musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

MS-5-22, OS Box 21, Folder 61
Item
January 20, 2007

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a poster for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. The concert included performances by Four the Moment, Jeremiah Sparks, and Dutch Robinson.

Shanties and shandies fundraiser concert with Claire Miller : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, OS Box 20, Folder 44
File
February 20, 2016

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with storyteller Claire Miller at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Seven scores for four saxophones by Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 11, Folder 5
File
[after 1980]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains Paul Cram's original handwritten scores for "Moonlight in Rio" (2 copies); "Inside Passage"; "The Lost City" ; Shanghai Express"; "Scotch Drinkers from Hell"; "Have a Heart or Invitation to an Aztec Sacrifice"; and "Concord Ave."

Sessione Milano: [part]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 24
Item
July 24, 1978

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition with eight movements, which include both traditional musical notation and directional text. For example, the first movement simply reads: "Coda I = material from Western Front."

Serenade from "Don Juan" : [arranged for piano]

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 30
Item
1927

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is Backhaus' arrangement of the serenade from Mozart's opera, "Don Juan," autographed by the arranger.

Selections from Upstream

MS-5-21, Box 7, Cassette 43
Item
November 27, 1993

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an audio cassette with a recording of a performance by the Upstream Ensemble. The container label lists the works featured on the cassette: Steve Tittle- "It looks like Up to Me", Bob Bauer- "Escape from the Bell Tower" (Dolby C), Jeff Reilly- "The Wisdom of Insecurity", Paul Cram- "Beyond Benghazi", and Sandy Moore- "Lady Baird".

Selections from Syracuse Liederkranz, 108th anniversary concert (side 2)

Item
1963

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is a sound recording of the Syracuse Liederkranz 108th anniversary concert on May 16th, 1963

Side 2 contains "Finale of act two(Die Fledermaus)," "Sonia's entrance song," "Maxims," "The girls at Maxims," "Gypsy chorus and vilia," "Love in my heart," "Quite in the modern style," Women," "The merry widow waltz."

Selections from Syracuse Liederkranz, 108th anniversary concert (side 1)

Item
1963

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is a sound recording of the Syracuse Liederkranz 108th anniversary concert on May 16th, 1963

Side 1 contains "Wach' auf, es nahet gen den Tag," "Chor der norwegischen Matrosen," "Spinnerlied," "Pilger Chor," "Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle," "Finale of act one(Die Fledermaus)," "What a joy to be here," "Laughing song," "Champagne's delicious bubbles," "Sing to love."

Selections from Syracuse Liederkranz, 108th anniversary concert

File
1963

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

File is a vinyl audio disc with recordings of the Syracuse Liederkranz 108th anniversary concert on May 16th, 1963.

"Featuring the Liederkranz Mens's and Women's Choruses in music from the lyric stage of Germany. Paul H. Dieke, director; Carol Ann Crumrine and David S. Bowman, accompanists. Guest artists courtesy of the Canadian Opera Co., Sheila Piercey, soprano; Thomas Clerke, tenor; Alexander Gray, baritone; member soloists: Lorraine Bluhm, soprano; Lorraine Caruso, soprano; Conrad Hess, tenor."--sleeve.

Second rehearsal in cohn (side B)

MS-5-20, Box 1, Cassette 13
Item
February 11, 1981 and May 1, 1981

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is an audio recording of the second rehearsal for "La Boheme" in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre made by Sheila Piercey on February 11, 1981. Full title as appears on audio cassette label is "1) Mimi's aria 2) 3 wedding solos - Sullivan 5/1/81" The recording is on side B of audio cassette.

Season program from the Metropolitan Opera House

MS-5-1, Box 5, Folder 9
File
1921-1922

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

Sea rhapsody

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 28, Item 1
Item
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a composition for piano inspired by Walt Whitman's poem, "Songs for All Seas, All Ships."

Scotia Winds school concert

MS-5-23, Box 1, Item 2
Item
1979

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a recording of a concert performed by Scotia Winds at St. Thomas Aquinas School on March 22, 1979 and broadcast on Music Maritimes on March 31, 1979.

Scotia Winds concert

MS-5-23, Box 1, Item 3
Item
May 15, 1978

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a concert recording of Scotia Winds on May 15, 1978 at Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax. The reel contains two tracks: Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Winds, op. 16, and La Cheminée du Roi René, by Darius Milhaud. The case is marked "1 of 2."

Scotia Winds concert

MS-5-23, Box 2, Item 4
Item
May 15, 1978

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item a recording of Carl Nielsen's Quintet for Winds, op. 43, performed by Scotia Winds at the Rebecca Cohen auditorium on May 15, 1978. The case is labelled "2 of 2."

Scores for small ensembles by Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 11, Folder 2
File
[ca. 1980s]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains original handwritten scores for "Tango Oreo"; "One Step at a Time"';"Faster at the Alter"; "(Do the) Funky Fool"; "String Quartet #3"; "Coup d'Etat"; and "Rank and Vile."

Scores for Paul Cram's "Down to Earth" and "Hammer and Tongs"

MS-5-21, Box 12, Folder 2
File
1983

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains original handwritten scores for Paul Cram's "Hammer and Tongs," written for two altos, bass and drums, and "Down to Earth," written for soprano, tenor and bass.

Scores catalogued by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC)

Subseries
1983 - 2002

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Subseries contains 34 scores catalogued by the Canadian Music Centre ca. 2016. The scores in this subseries are listed in the order of the RSN (record series number) established by the CMC and descriptions contain corresponding call numbers. They were re-foldered along with the CNC envelopes in which they were maintained.

Schooldays : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 23
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a handwritten score in pencil.

School of octave-playing for the pianoforte : book three

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 23
File
1917

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used and annotated by Ellen Ballon. It is the third book in a set of three, dedicated to Rafael Joseffy. It includes studies by composers from Ludwig van Beethoven until the book's publication.

Philipp, Isidor

School of advanced piano playing : exercises