Annotation:Poor Robin's Maggot

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POOR ROBIN'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Would You Have a Young Virgin (of Fifteen Years)." English, Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This air with country dance directions ("Longways for as many as will") appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1710-1728), Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy (vol. 1, 1719), and many ballad operas, including John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728, where it appears under the title "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares"). However, in the Dancing Master "Poor Robin's Maggot" is the alternate title, while "Wou'd You have a Young Virgin" is the main title. The tune appears with the titles reversed in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719), with "Poor Robin's Maggot" as the main title. The word ‘maggot’ in this context means a 'trifle', or a 'plaything'; from the Italian maggioletta.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2), 1859; p. 116.

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