Crested Hens (The)

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Theme code Index	112 555
Also known as	Poules Huppées (Les)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	3/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Mel Stevens
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Massif Central Tune Book No. 1
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1987
Artist	Biography:Solas
Title of recording	Solas
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Shanachie 78002
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

CRESTED HENS, THE (Les Poules Huppées). French, Bourrée à 3 temps (3/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composed in 1983 by French national and hurdy-gurdy (vielle a roue) player, Gilles Chabenat, who remarks that some bars of a Debussy composition served as inspiration for the germ of the tune. It is of a type from central France, where it is also a folk dance, and is usually played at a medium tempo though this tune is often heard played slower, a la the Irish group Solas (who popularised the tune and translated the title). Gilles remarks that the title was a kind of nonsense play, from his teenage years. The tune is often mistakenly ascribed Breton origins, of varying degrees of antiquity, however, it is a modern composition by Chabenat.

Printed source: Stevens (Massif Central Tune Book No. 1).

Recorded sources: Karen Ashbrook - "Knock on the Door" (learned at the Victoria Pub, London). Shanachie 78002, "Solas."

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X:2
T:Crested Hens
C:from the playing of Solas
R:Air
Z:Brian Duffy, corrected by Henrik Norbeck
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:130
K:Edor
E3GFE|B4Bc|dc Be dc|dc BA GF|E3GFE|B4Bc|dc BA GA|B3G FD|
E3GFE|B4Bc|dc Be dc|dc BA GF|E3GFE|B4Bc|dc BA GA|B4 ef|
gB Bg gB|=c4ef|gf ag fe|^d2e2f2|gB Bg gB|=c4ef|gf ag fd|e3e ef|
gB Bg gB|=c4ef|gf ag fe|^d2e2f2|gB Bg gB|=c4ef|gf ag fd|e3G FA||