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NOBE'S MAGGOT. English, Country Dance Tune or Slip Jig (9/4 or 9/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "'Maggot', a dram" (Joyce). The melody and dance directions were first printed by Henry Playford in his Dancing Master, 12th edition [1] (1703). It was retained in subsequent editions of the long-running series through the 18th and last edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. The tune was also printed by the Walshes in The Compleat Country Dancing-Master (editions of 1731 and 1754). P.W. Joyce obtained the melody from the manuscript collection of Irish collector and lawyer John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), who collected among the Irish in London as well as in Ireland.
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Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 724, pp. 360-261. John Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 101.
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