Annotation:Eccles’s Maggot

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ECCLES'S MAGGOT. AKA - "Eccle's Maggot." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728), and in rival London publishers Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (1710). It also appears in Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719), and in John Walsh's (the younger) The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Sixth (1754).

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