Maggots

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:05 pm

I got a maggot and just had to find out. Here's why some tune names include the word maggot.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:29 pm

I don't know any Irish tunes with Maggot in the title actually. There's the Miller's Maggot I think in O Farrell's but that's Scottish.

The word doesn't have an entry here

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:47 pm

Further searching does reveal more prevalent use among English dance tunes. The word humours seems to be its equal in ITM.

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:49 pm

Wasn't there a O'Carolan tune called "Carolan's Maggot"?

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:46 pm

Silly me had always assumed a tune titled with the word "maggot" in it implied one danced to it with a specific step.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:45 pm

hyldemoer wrote:had always assumed a tune titled with the word "maggot" in it implied one danced to it with a specific step

I'm not sure that the step matters too much as long as your fly is done up.

djm

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:28 pm

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.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:58 am

"Piper's Maggot" from Howe's 1000 jigs and reels....

Albanach wrote:The piper's maggot.. A slow aire for the scottish smallpipes.. In 18th Century Scots slang maggot meant slow aire.

Perhaps there should be a Maggot set.

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:39 pm

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

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:23 pm

My beloved plays a tune called the Piper's Maggot on the fiddle. I don't know who he got it from.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:31 pm

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

It's the Killavil Jig. BEE BEE etc. Coleman was born there. I picked the Miller's Maggot up from Creavan, too; lovely.

johnkerr · Post by **johnkerr** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:58 am

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.

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 · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:46 am

johnkerr wrote:
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.
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...

Makes me think of the old lady with the freeze-dried cat on her dining-room table.

ceadach · Post by **ceadach** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:41 pm

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???

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:44 pm

ceadach wrote:...
Makes you wonder what was in the Mead???

Herbs?
If so, the drink would have been called a metheglin.