Annotation:My Lady Winwood's Maggot

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MY LADY WINWOOD'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Nobody's Jig." English, Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Maud Karpeles notes this tune, which dates to 1726 under this title (although to 1686 as "Nobody's Jigg"), can be used as an alternative accompaniment to the Flamborough Sword Dance. It was first published with the 'Winwood' title in John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (second edition, p. 9) as a longways dance "for as many as will."

A 'maggot' was another name for a dram, a unit of liquid measure, and also meant a small thing of little consequence, or a plaything; from the Italian magioletta. Maggots were latter 17th century longways country dances written generally to triple-time tunes and often dedicated to a personage.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; pp. 18-19. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 50.

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