Annotation:Hare's Maggot
Tune properties and standard notation
HARE'S MAGGOT. AKA and see "Up with Aily." English, Country Dance Tune (3/2 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. One meaning of maggot is for a dram, a unit of liquid measure, but the musical meaning may stem from the word's derivation from the Italian word maggioletta, or a plaything. The melody was published in 1701.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Fleming-Williams & Shaw (English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1), 1965; p. 13. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 28.
Recorded sources: Island Records AN-700, Kirkpatrick & Hutchings - "The Compleat Dancing Master" (1974).