Hill's Maggot
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Hill's Maggot" is an English country dance tune in cut time and C Major. The parts are played AABBCC.<br> Each part has only six measures.<br> The melody and dance directions ("Longways for as many as will") were first published by Henry<br> Playford in the 11th edition of the Dancing Master (1701). It was retained in each<br> subsequent edition through the 18th and final one, published by John Young in 1728.<br> "Hill's Maggot" was also published in John Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing Master<br> (1718) and in subsequent editions of 1731 and 1754.<br> There was a dancing master named George Hill of London, whose will was probated on<br> April 16th, 1706, although whether he is associated with this tune is unknown.<br> It was also printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).<br>
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