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ORLABEAR'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Short and Sweet (1)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Orlabear's Maggot" is the alternate title given for "Short and Sweet", a country dance and tune printed in London publisher John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, second edition [1] (1726), and in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, 1745 and 1754) and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth (London, 1755). Dance instructions were also published in the London periodical The Weekly Amusement: or, The Universal Magazine in 1735.

The title probably refers to a Mr. Orlabeer, who was one of forty-seven dancing masters listed by Mr. Isaac, himself a London dancing master, on page four of his Collection of ball-dances perform'd at court (London, c. 1706 [2]).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

Recorded sources: -

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-'''ORLABEAR'S MAGGOT.''' AKA and see "[[Short and Sweet (1)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Orlabear's Maggot" is the alternate title given for "[[Short and Sweet]]", a country dance and tune printed in London publisher John Young's '''Third Volume of the Dancing Master''', second edition [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5852.htm] (1726), and in John Walsh's '''Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1735, 1745 and 1754) and '''The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth''' (London, 1755). Dance instructions were also published in the London periodical '''The Weekly Amusement: or, The Universal Magazine''' in 1735.  Who 'Orlabear' might have been is not known at this time. There was a John Orlebar (1697–1765), of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734, but there is nothing known that would connect him with this tune. <br>
+'''ORLABEAR'S MAGGOT.''' AKA and see "[[Short and Sweet (1)]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Orlabear's Maggot" is the alternate title given for "[[Short and Sweet]]", a country dance and tune printed in London publisher John Young's '''Third Volume of the Dancing Master''', second edition [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5852.htm] (1726), and in John Walsh's '''Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1735, 1745 and 1754) and '''The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth''' (London, 1755). Dance instructions were also published in the London periodical '''The Weekly Amusement: or, The Universal Magazine''' in 1735.
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+The title probably refers to a Mr. Orlabeer, who was one of forty-seven dancing masters listed by Mr. Isaac, himself a London dancing master, on page four of his '''Collection of ball-dances perform'd at court''' (London, c. 1706 [https://www.loc.gov/resource/muspre1800.100103/?sp=4]).
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