Brook's Maggot
Tune annotations
X:1 T:Brook's Maggot M:6/8 L:1/8 B:John Hinton - The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (1759, p. 257) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G3 BGB|dBd efg|G3 BGB|ABA AFD| G3 GBG dBd efg|fgf ge^c|d3 D3:| |:dBG GBd|ecG EGc|egf ed^c|dAF D3| G3 BGB|dBd efg|dBG cAF|(G3 G3):|]
X:1 T:Brooks Maggot M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1765) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G3 BGB|dBd efg|G3 BGB|ABA AFD| G3 BGB|dBd efg|faf ge^c|d3 D3:| |:dBG GBd|ecG EGc|egf ed^c|dAF D3| G3 BGB|dBd efg|dBG cAF|G3 G3:||
Tune annotations
BROOKS MAGGOT. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A maggot was a term, like 'fancy' or 'whim', to a dance tune; from the Italian magioletta, meaning trifle or thing of small consequence. The tune was first printed in John Hinton's Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London, 1759), and later in R. Baldwin's The London Magazine, or The Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (1762).
Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 ), 1765; No. 25.
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