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PROFESSOR MARTIN’S MAGGOT. English, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCBC. Attributed to Prof. Leonard Martin c. 1930. The notated melody and dance directions (longways set dance for three couples) were discovered in the back of a “Playford Book” among the papers of Professor Martin of Liverpool University after he died.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 103. Stapledon (Not Quite Gold), 1974.

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