Annotation:Orlabear's Maggot

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X:1 T:Short and Sweet: Or, Orlabear's Maggot M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B: K:Gmin g/f/|g2d B>AG|G,2A, B,2a|bag fde|d2B B2|| d/c/|Bdf Bdf|Acf Acf|GBd gab|(^fe/f/g/a/) d2g/f/|gdc B>AG|G3 G2||

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.

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Source for notated version: -

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

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