Nobody's Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Nobody's Jig", also known as "My Lady Winwood's Maggot" is an English country dance<br> tune in cut time and D Dorian. The parts are played AABB.<br> Merryweather (1989) states the tune dates from the 17th century when the term 'jig'<br> meant any spirited dance tune, rather than the 6/8 time dance (as in Irish jig) form<br> familiar to us in modern times.<br> Barnes (1986) for some reason dates the tune to 1721, however, it appears in the<br> Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (c. 1650?) and was later published by John Playford in his<br> Dancing Master from the supplement to the 6th edition of 1679 and subsequently<br> through the 18th and final edition of 1728. From the 7th edition on, the tune was <br> changed somewhat and it was transposed to G major.The tune and country dance directions<br> were also published by the Walshes in The Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718, and<br> later editions of 1731 and 1754). The tune seems related, at least structurally, to<br> "No Man's Jig",<br> a morris-dance version of "Buttered Peas".<br> It was printed in<br> Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882),<br> Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951)<br> (appears as "My Lady Winwood's Maggot"),<br> Merryweather's Tunes for English Bagpipes (1989),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
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