Annotation:Carolan's Maggot

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CAROLAN'S MAGGOT. Irish, Air. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). A maggot was a unit of liquid measure--a dram--though used in the musical sense, a slight melody or plaything (from the Italian maggioletta).

Source for notated version: O'Sullivan finds the tune in the Thompson's Hiberian Muse; a Colleciton of Irish Airs, including the Most Favourite Compositions of Carolan, the celebrated Irish Bard (London, c. 1786).

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 189, p. 130. O’Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958, No. 189, p. 208.

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