The Hen's March to the Midden
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Hen's March to the Midden", also known as<br> "The Cackling of the Hens", "The Duck's in the Midden", "The Hen's Concert",<br> "Hen's March", "Major Hen's March" or "Tick Tick Tickalairy" is a Scottish<br> (originally), Shetland, English and Irish march or novelty tune in 4/4 time<br> and D Major. The parts are played AB (Hunter), AAB (Cooke), AAB (Milne),<br> ABB (Alburger, Phillips), AABB (Johnson) or AABB' (Martin).<br> It is included in the earliest Scottish collection - Robert Bremner's<br> (c. 1713-1789) A Collection of Airs and Marches for Two Violins or German<br> Flutes (c. 1756-1761).<br> Paul Wells finds the tune in the United States in a music manuscript from<br> New England, c. 1823, under the title "Cacklin' Hen", in an 1834 flute tutor<br> published in Albany as "Major Hen's March" and in a guitar tutor of 1863 by<br> the 19th century publisher Elias Howe of Boston as "The Hen's March".<br> It was printed in Alburger's Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music (1983)<br> (appears as "The Hen's March"),<br> Bruce & Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882),<br> Cooke's The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (1986),<br> Johnson's Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century (1983),<br> Martin's Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 1 (1991),<br> Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870) and<br> Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles (1989).<br> It was recorded by Dave Swarbrick.<br>
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