Mr. Beveridge's Maggot
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Mr. Beveridge's Maggot" is an English country dance tune in 3/2 time and G Minor.<br> The parts are played ABB (Sharp) or AABB (Barnes). The parts are not symmetric:<br> there are four measures in the A part and eight measures in the B part.<br> Mr. Beveridge was a court dancing master who was famous in the 1680's in England and<br> who, along with Mr. Issacs, began devising maggots - distinctive longways country<br> dances to triple-time hornpipes.<br> A maggot was another name for a dram, a unit of liquid measure, but also meant a<br> small thing of little consequence or a plaything, from the Italian maggioletta.<br> The maggots began appearing in the Dancing Master, ninth edition, of 1695, and the<br> appendix to that edition, The Second Part of the Dancing Master, contains most of<br> the 24 dances attributed to Beveridge. This melody dates to 1696.<br> It was printed in Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Fleming Williams & Shaw's English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1 (1965),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909) and<br> Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).<br> <br>
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