Lord Byron's Maggot
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lord Byron's Maggot", also known as "Lord Biron's Maggot" or "My Lord Byron's<br> Maggot" is an English air and country dance tune in 6/4 or 6/8 time and D Major.<br> The parts are played AAB or sometimes as only one part.<br> A maggot was another term for a dram, a unit of liquid measure, and also meant<br> something of small or little consequence or a plaything; from the Italian<br> maggioletta . Maggots were latter 17th century longways country dances written<br> generally to triple-time tunes.<br> The country dance and tune were first printed in Henry Playford's Dancing Master,<br> 12th edition (1703) and in all following editions through the 18th and final edition<br> of 1728 (then published by John Young). It was also published in<br> John Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br> The tune was the vehicle for songs in The Grub Street Opera (1731),<br> The Genuine Grub Street Opera (1731),<br> The Welsh Opera, or the Grey Mare the Better Horse (1731),<br> Calista (1731) and The Mad Captain (1733).<br> Country dance versions were printed in Walsh & Hare's The Compleat Country Dancing<br> Master (1718) and later editions of 1731 and 1754.<br> It was also printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master<br> (1985) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> Neither this nor "My Lord Byron's Delight", also in this section, have any relation<br> to the poet Lord Byron although, since he was the 6th Baron Byron, there may be some<br> connection to his ancestor(s).<br>
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