Annotation:Jackson's Maggot

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 JACKSON'S MAGGOT. Irish. One of the tunes attributed to the mid-18th century Irish gentleman musician and composer Walter "Piper" Jackson. A maggot was a unit of liquid measure, a dram, but came to mean something of small consequence, or, musically, a slight melody; from the Italian maggioletta or a plaything.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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