Annotation:Jack's Maggot
X: 1 P: Jack's Maggot [C] O: Playford 1702 Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu> N: Duple minor longways B: Playford Ball B: Playford, "Twenty Four New Country Dances", 1702 M: C| L: 1/8 K: C cB | "C"c2C2 E2G2 | "F"AGAB "G7"c2d2 | "C"efg2 "F"ABc2 | "Dm"d3e "G7"d2cB | "C"c2C2 E2G2 | "F"ABc2 "G7"B2gf | "C"e2c2 "G7"d2B2 | "C"c4- c2 :| |: ef |"C"g2e2- e2g2 | "Am"e2c2- c2de | "Dm"fedc B2c2 | "G7"d3e d2ef | "C"g2e2 c2e2 | G2c2 E2G2 | "F"c3d "G7"~d3c | "C"c4- c2 :|
JACK'S MAGGOT. English, Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A 'maggot' was another name for a dram, a small unit of liquid measure, but also was used to mean something of slight consequence or a plaything; from the Italian maggioletta. Maggots were dances written in the later 17th century and often dedicated to a personage. This melody was first published in 1701 in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 11th edition (second section, p. 19), and was retained in subsequent editions until the end of the series, with the 18th edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford concerns).
