Annotation:Carolan's Maggot

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CAROLAN'S MAGGOT. Irish, Air (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (O'Sullivan, Thompson): AABBCC (Mulhollan). Composed by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). A 'maggot' was a unit of liquid measure--a dram--though used in the musical sense, a slight melody or plaything (from the Italian maggioletta).

Source for notated version: O'Sullivan finds the tune in the Thompson's Hiberian Muse; a Colleciton of Irish Airs, including the Most Favourite Compositions of Carolan, the celebrated Irish Bard (London, c. 1786).

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 189, p. 130. Mulhollan (Selection of Irish and Scots Tunes), Edinburgh, 1804; p. 9. O’Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958, No. 189, p. 208. Samuel, Anne & Peter Thompson (The Hibernian Muse), London, 1787; No. 82, p. 51.

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