Mr. Lane's Maggot
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Also known as "Lane's Maggot", “Polly for ever”, “Richmond Ball” and "The Round".<br> A "maggot" is another term for a dram; a unit of liquid measure and also<br> meant a small thing of little consequence or a plaything; from the<br> Italian maggioletta. Maggots were longways country dances of the late<br> 17th century often dedicated to a personage or named for a composer.<br> "Mr. Lane's Maggot" is attributed to Mr. Lane who was dancing master to<br> Charles II, who also composed or is associated with "Lane’s Minuet" and<br> "Mr. Lane's Trumpet Minuet".<br> The tune appears in Pepys circa 1690. William Vickers prints a major-mode<br> version in his 1770 music manuscript collection under the title “Richmond Ball”.<br> “Mr. Lane’s Maggot” first appears in print in The English Dancing Master,<br> 9th edition (1695) and in all subsequent editions through the 18th and final<br> edition in 1728. Playford (1695) notes that it is "A Song made by<br> Mr. Tho. D'Ursey upon a new country dance at Richmond, called, Mr. Lane's Magot".<br> The alternate title “Richmond Ball” was used in the 17th and 18th editions (1721 & 1728).<br> It was published by Thomas D’Urfey in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge<br> Melancholy, vol. 2 (as the indicated tune for the song "The Richmond Recreation: or,<br> The Royal Dance of Delight") and in the various editions of John Walsh's<br> Complete Country Dancing Master, beginning in 1718 (followed by editions of 1731 and 1754)<br> as "Lane's Maggot." The tune was used as a vehicle for a broadside ballad called<br> "Strike up drousy Guts-scrapers." <br> A more sophisticated employment of the melody was by Francesco Barsanti as the<br> subject in the allegro section of his Overture in A minor, Op. 4 no. 1 for<br> string quartet and keyboard (optional), published in Edinburgh around 1745.<br> <br>
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