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{{SheetMusic
|f_track=Old_Dan_Tucker.mp3
|f_track=Mr Isaacs Maggot.mp3
|f_pdf=Old_Dan_Tucker.pdf
|f_pdf=Mr.Isaac's Maggot.pdf
|f_artwork=Tuckersheet.JPEG
|f_artwork=Mr-isaac.jpg
|f_tune_name=Old Dan Tucker
|f_tune_name=Mr. Isaac’s Maggot
|f_track_title=Old Dan Tucker
|f_track_title=Mr. Isaac’s Maggot
|f_section=X5
|f_section=abc
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/just4folk Just Folk]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/auburn_witch Auburn Witch]
|f_notes=The original 1843 sheet music, featuring Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels
|f_notes=Mr. Isaac, painted by Louis Goupy. The original portrait is lost, but this engraving of it by George White was published in the early 18th century.
|f_caption=Old Dan Tucker went to town,{{break}}
|f_caption=Sixteenth and seventeenth century country dance tunes sometimes had the word "maggot" in their titles, perhaps derived from Italian Maggiolatta or Italian May song, but used in England to mean a whim, fancy, plaything, 'trifle'--essentially an earworm.
Ridin a goat and leadin' a hound;{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/auburn_witch/mr-isaacs-maggot Soundcloud]
The hound give a yelp and the goat give a jump,{{break}}
And set Dan Tucker right a-straddle of a stump.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/just4folk/old-dan-tucker Soundcloud]
|f_pix=420  
|f_pix=420  
|f_picpix=200
|f_picpix=200
|f_article=[[Old Dan Tucker | '''Old Dan Tucker''']]
|f_article=[[Mr. Isaac’s Maggot | '''Mr. Isaac’s Maggot''']]




was a popular tune throughout the 19th century and into the next, and is mentioned fairly frequently in publications. Several older fiddle-players have said the "Old Dan Tucker" was the first tune that they learned to play, according to Mike Yates (2002).  
Dance researcher Moira Goff has discovered that "Mr. Isaac" was in fact a Royal dancing master named Francis Thorpe, offering as proof the will of his uncle, Jerome Gahory, who previously occupied the post of Royal dancing master. Gahory left the residue of his English estate to "Francis Thorpe his nephew (known by the name of Isaac)."


It was recorded on a dance card as a square dance played at a "Grand Select Quadrille at City Hall, Lima, Ohio, on Thursday Evening, Jan. 13th, 1870," and "Old Dan Tucker" was given as one of the "category" tunes played in an 1899 Gallatin, Tenn., fiddle contest-the fiddler who played the best rendition won a prize (C. Wolfe, '''The Devil's Box''', vol. 14, No. 4, 12/1/80). The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.  
Francis was the product of Gahory's sister and "Mnsr. Isac", who had a reputation as one of the best dancing masters in Paris. Young Francis may have taken the name Isaac "as a compliment to his father as well as to show his lineage with its associated status."


Elizabeth Burchenal prints a circle dance of the same name to the tune, and Ford (1940, p. 207) also prints a dance called "Old Dan Tucker." Indeed, Paul Tyler reports that Old Dan Tucker is the name of a square dance figure—"It's something like the Nine-Pin Reel, a 4-couple square dance with one extra dancer in the middle"—with the active male dancer being known as the 'Tucker'.  
After some time dancing in France, the younger "Mr. Isaac" removed to England, and is recorded as having danced in the English court masque '''Calisto''' in 1675. This Mr. Isaac died in 1681, and Goff concludes that references to "Mr. Isaac" after this must refer to his son. John Essex, in his '''Preface to The Dancing Master''' (1728) recorded:
 
<blockquote>
Recorded versions in the 78 RPM era come from Uncle Dave Macon (in the early 1920's), Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters (1928), and the Skillet Lickers (1928).
''The late Mr. Isaac, who had the Honour to teach and instruct our late most excellent and gracious Queen when a young Princess,''
''first gained the Character and afterwards supported that Reputation of being the prime Master in England for forty Years together:''
''He taught the first Quality with Success and Applause, and was justly stiled the Court Dancing-Master, therefore might truly deserve''
''to be called the Gentleman Dancing-Master.'' (p. xi)<ref>This quote and information above on Francis Thorpe accessed on 08.07.2020 from Moira Goff's blog "England's Royal Dancing Masters 1660-1714", danceinhistory.com [https://danceinhistory.com/category/dancers-dancing-masters/]</ref>
</blockquote>
}}
}}

Revision as of 10:18, 7 December 2024


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File:Mr Isaacs Maggot.mp3 Mr. Isaac’s Maggot


Dance researcher Moira Goff has discovered that "Mr. Isaac" was in fact a Royal dancing master named Francis Thorpe, offering as proof the will of his uncle, Jerome Gahory, who previously occupied the post of Royal dancing master. Gahory left the residue of his English estate to "Francis Thorpe his nephew (known by the name of Isaac)."

Francis was the product of Gahory's sister and "Mnsr. Isac", who had a reputation as one of the best dancing masters in Paris. Young Francis may have taken the name Isaac "as a compliment to his father as well as to show his lineage with its associated status."

After some time dancing in France, the younger "Mr. Isaac" removed to England, and is recorded as having danced in the English court masque Calisto in 1675. This Mr. Isaac died in 1681, and Goff concludes that references to "Mr. Isaac" after this must refer to his son. John Essex, in his Preface to The Dancing Master (1728) recorded:

The late Mr. Isaac, who had the Honour to teach and instruct our late most excellent and gracious Queen when a young Princess, first gained the Character and afterwards supported that Reputation of being the prime Master in England for forty Years together: He taught the first Quality with Success and Applause, and was justly stiled the Court Dancing-Master, therefore might truly deserve to be called the Gentleman Dancing-Master. (p. xi)[1]

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...more at: Mr. Isaac’s Maggot - full Score(s) and Annotations


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  1. ↑ This quote and information above on Francis Thorpe accessed on 08.07.2020 from Moira Goff's blog "England's Royal Dancing Masters 1660-1714", danceinhistory.com [1]
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