Maggots
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Maggots
I got a maggot and just had to find out. Here's why some tune names include the word maggot.
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Ode To The Maggot
Yusef Komunyakaa
Brother of the blowfly
& godhead, you work magic
Over battlefields,
In slabs of bad pork
& flophouses. Yes, you
Go to the root of all things.
You are sound & mathematical.
Jesus, Christ, you're merciless
With the truth. Ontological & lustrous,
You cast spells on beggars & kings
Behind the stone door of Caesar's tomb
Or split trench in a field of ragweed.
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Brother of the blowfly
& godhead, you work magic
Over battlefields,
In slabs of bad pork
& flophouses. Yes, you
Go to the root of all things.
You are sound & mathematical.
Jesus, Christ, you're merciless
With the truth. Ontological & lustrous,
You cast spells on beggars & kings
Behind the stone door of Caesar's tomb
Or split trench in a field of ragweed.
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
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"Piper's Maggot" from Howe's 1000 jigs and reels....
Perhaps there should be a Maggot set.Albanach wrote:The piper's maggot.. A slow aire for the scottish smallpipes.. In 18th Century Scots slang maggot meant slow aire.
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It's the Killavil Jig. BEE BEE etc. Coleman was born there. I picked the Miller's Maggot up from Creavan, too; lovely.Jayhawk wrote:John Creavan play's Miller's Maggot with the Trip to Kilavil (or is it Killavill?)...I think they make a lovely set. I didn't realize Miller's was Scottish, but it raises my number of known Scottish tunes in my repetoire to one.
Eric
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johnkerr wrote:If my beloved had maggots, I don't think I'd care where or how they were obtained. I'd just be all about finding a new beloved post haste. But maybe that's just me...Cathy Wilde wrote:My beloved plays a tune called the Piper's Maggot on the fiddle. I don't know who he got it from.
Makes me think of the old lady with the freeze-dried cat on her dining-room table.
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Yes, there is a tune called Carolan's Maggot. ( or Maggott)
The Maggot was an older British dance form, in common time, usually moderately fast, somewhere between a hornpipe and a reel. It could be a corruption of the continental "Gavotte", but history is blurry on it's origins. Notable Maggots are found in collections of keyboard and lute music by the likes of Bryd, Tallis, Playford and the like. There were all kinds of weird dance and tune titles then, for example” The New Irish Dumpe”, “Margaret’s Thing”, “The Stingo” and on and on.
Makes you wonder what was in the Mead???
The Maggot was an older British dance form, in common time, usually moderately fast, somewhere between a hornpipe and a reel. It could be a corruption of the continental "Gavotte", but history is blurry on it's origins. Notable Maggots are found in collections of keyboard and lute music by the likes of Bryd, Tallis, Playford and the like. There were all kinds of weird dance and tune titles then, for example” The New Irish Dumpe”, “Margaret’s Thing”, “The Stingo” and on and on.
Makes you wonder what was in the Mead???
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
T.S. Eliot