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'''DRAPER'S MAGGOT'''. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle) AABB. "Draper's Maggot" first appears in Henry Playford's 13th edition of the '''Dancing Master''' (1706), then in Walsh's '''Compleat Dancing Master''', vol. 1 (1718). The word maggot derives from the Italian magioletta, meaning a plaything or something of slight or small consequence. Playford's 1706 volume also contained companion tune, also new to his 1706 edition, called "Draper's Gardens", and one might easily surmise the two tunes together are connected with the Draper's Guild, once one of the most powerful companies in London. | '''DRAPER'S MAGGOT'''. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle) AABB. "Draper's Maggot" first appears in Henry Playford's 13th edition of the '''Dancing Master''' (1706), then in Walsh's '''Compleat Dancing Master''', vol. 1 (1718). The word maggot derives from the Italian magioletta, meaning a plaything or something of slight or small consequence. Playford's 1706 volume also contained companion tune, also new to his 1706 edition, called "[[Draper's Gardens (2)]]", and one might easily surmise the two tunes together are connected with the Draper's Guild, once one of the most powerful companies in London. | ||
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DRAPER'S MAGGOT. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle) AABB. "Draper's Maggot" first appears in Henry Playford's 13th edition of the Dancing Master (1706), then in Walsh's Compleat Dancing Master, vol. 1 (1718). The word maggot derives from the Italian magioletta, meaning a plaything or something of slight or small consequence. Playford's 1706 volume also contained companion tune, also new to his 1706 edition, called "Draper's Gardens (2)", and one might easily surmise the two tunes together are connected with the Draper's Guild, once one of the most powerful companies in London.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 523, p. 117. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Fleming-Williams & Shaw (English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1), 1965; p. 8. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 28.
Recorded sources: