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|f_track=Tatterjack Walsh.mp3
|f_track=The Rock And The Wee Pickle Tow.mp3
|f_pdf=Tatter Jack Walsh.pdf
|f_pdf=The Rock and a Pickle Tow.pdf
|f_artwork=Patrick Josepf McCall.jpg
|f_artwork=Rock-and-the-wee-pickle-tow.png
|f_tune_name=Tatter Jack Walsh
|f_tune_name=A rock and a wee pickle tow
|f_track_title=Tatter Jack Walsh
|f_track_title=Rock_and_a_Wee_Pickle_Tow_(A)
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/andrew-john-cairns  Andrew John Cairns ]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/max-carmichael Max Carmichael]
|f_notes=Patrick Joseph McCall (6 March 1861 – 8 March 1919) known as "P.J. McCall"
|f_notes=A rock and a wee pickle tow round
|f_caption=The title is among those mentioned in Patrick J. McCall’s  poem “The Dance at Marley,the incept of which goes:{{break}}
|f_caption=Regarding the title, a rock is a distaff, a device that holds the flax strick or the fiber for spinning. It is called a rock because the weight, or whorl, was frequently a shaped and pierced rock. A ‘wee pickle tow’ is a small piece of prepared short flax fibers combed from longer fibers called "line".
Murtagh Murphy’s barn was full to the door when the eve grew dull,
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/max-carmichael/the-rock-and-the-wee-pickle-tow Soundcloud]
For Phelim Moore his beautiful new pipes had brought to charm them.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/andrew-john-cairns/tatterjack-walsh-arr-for Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Tatter Jack Walsh | '''Tatter Jack Walsh''']]
|f_article=[[Rock_and_a_Wee_Pickle_Tow_(A) | '''A rock and a wee pickle tow''']]


The title derives from the Irish "An t‑Athair Jack Walsh;” ''Athair'' meaning Father, as in a Catholic priest with the form ''An t-Athair'' being Irish Gaelic usage before a proper name.  
...thus it was a spinning song, the tune of which proved popular and served many purposes over the years.  


Carlin begs comparison with "[[Kate Caulfield's Jig]]" which he thinks is probably a variant of this tune. Tunes having the same basic melody are "[[Palatine's Daughter (The)]]," "[[ Garden of Daisies (2) (The)]]", "[[Savourna Delight]]," and "(Garbh‑) Chnoicin Fraoigh (An)" (The Rough, Heathy Little Hill).  
Christine Martin (2002) notes that “rocking meets” were held in some parts of Scotland, in which all spinners gathered in one house in the village to spin.
 
It was used as a march tune under many different titles, and was one of the favorite songs of the early 19th century in Lowlands Scotland, according to Peter Mackenzie, "the genial reminiscer of Glasgow" (Emmerson, 1971).
 
John Glen, in his '''Early Scottish Melodies''' (p. 197), traces the tune to the 1663 edition of Playford’s '''Musicks Hand-Maid''' where it appears under the title “A Scotish March.”
 
Playford later printed the same tune as “[[Montrose's March]]” in this 1669 '''Musick’s Recreation'''. The title “A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow” first appears with the melody in Oswald’s '''Curious Collection of Scots Tunes''' (1740), finds Glen.
 
A similar air exists in Shetland as "[[Bride's March (The)]]" as played by John Stickle of Unst. Under the title variant "Rock and Pickal o' Taw" it is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript, and the title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800.
 
Fifer John Buttery (1784-1854) entered it into his large turn of the 19th century copybook after he joined the 24th Regiment of Foot.  


See also the closely related Cape Breton tune "Charlie's Aunt" and the possibly partly-related “[[Little Brown Jug]].” The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).
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The title is among those mentioned in Patrick J. McCall’s 1861 poem “The Dance at Marley,” the first three stanzas of which goes:
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''Murtagh Murphy’s barn was full to the door when the eve grew dull,''<br>
''For Phelim Moore his beautiful new pipes had brought to charm them;''<br>
''In the kitchen thronged the girls - cheeks of roses, teeth of pearls -''<br> 
''Admiring bows and braids and curls, till Phelim’s notes alarm them.''<br>
''Quick each maid her hat and shawl hung on dresser, bed, or wall,''<br>
''Smoothed down her hair and smiled on all as she the bawnoge entered,''<br>
''Where a shass of straw was laid on a ladder raised that made''<br>
''A seat for them as still they stayed while dancers by them cantered.''<br>
</blockquote>


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Revision as of 17:40, 27 September 2024



File:The Rock and a Pickle Tow.pdf
Regarding the title, a rock is a distaff, a device that holds the flax strick or the fiber for spinning. It is called a rock because the weight, or whorl, was frequently a shaped and pierced rock. A ‘wee pickle tow’ is a small piece of prepared short flax fibers combed from longer fibers called "line".
A rock and a wee pickle tow

Played by: Max Carmichael
Source: Soundcloud
Image: A rock and a wee pickle tow round

A rock and a wee pickle tow

...thus it was a spinning song, the tune of which proved popular and served many purposes over the years.

Christine Martin (2002) notes that “rocking meets” were held in some parts of Scotland, in which all spinners gathered in one house in the village to spin.

It was used as a march tune under many different titles, and was one of the favorite songs of the early 19th century in Lowlands Scotland, according to Peter Mackenzie, "the genial reminiscer of Glasgow" (Emmerson, 1971).

John Glen, in his Early Scottish Melodies (p. 197), traces the tune to the 1663 edition of Playford’s Musicks Hand-Maid where it appears under the title “A Scotish March.”

Playford later printed the same tune as “Montrose's March” in this 1669 Musick’s Recreation. The title “A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow” first appears with the melody in Oswald’s Curious Collection of Scots Tunes (1740), finds Glen.

A similar air exists in Shetland as "Bride's March (The)" as played by John Stickle of Unst. Under the title variant "Rock and Pickal o' Taw" it is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript, and the title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800.

Fifer John Buttery (1784-1854) entered it into his large turn of the 19th century copybook after he joined the 24th Regiment of Foot.

...more at: A rock and a wee pickle tow - full Score(s) and Annotations



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