Annotation:Orlabear's Maggot

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ORLABEAR'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Short and Sweet." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Orlabear's Maggot" is the alternate title for "Short and Sweet", printed in London publisher John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, second edition [1] (1726), and in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, 1745 and 1754) and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth (London, 1755). Dance instructions were also published in the London periodical The Weekly Amusement: or, The Universal Magazine in 1735.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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