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-Dick's Maggot
+====== Dick's Maggot ======
+This dance seems to date from the 11th edition of the Dancing Master in 1701.
+Recording: {{ ::music:dicks_maggot-073-bnecd-08.mp3.zip |}}
+The tune, "Dick's Maggot" is now, for some reason, used for the dance "Mr
+Isaac's Maggot", while the dance "Dick's Maggot" uses the tune
+"Double the Cape". There are instructions below. On April 4, 2018,
+we tried it at the OECDC Orange Hall group, which we call "advanced"
+in that figures are not taught. We found the dance rather frantic, and
+looked at a facsimile of the original publication.
+A transcription of the original (which James Hargrove had to hand) is
+<code>
+The 1. cu. cross over and the 2. cu. cast off. Then change places across.
+Then cast up in your own places, and back to back, then Right and Left
+and turn.
+</code>
+We tried this, and again on April 7 in Ogdensburg. (Thank you to dancers for indulging
+this exercise.) The resulting dance is as follows. It is much less frantic, but requires
+some awareness of the music.
+<code>
+A1    Couple 1 cross (they may use R hand), then lead down and fall
+      back into 2nd place as Couple 2 cast up.
+A2    Couple 1 fall back a double, then forward, then hole-in-the-wall
+      cross the set.
+B     Couple 1 cast up, Couple 2 lead down.
+      All back to back.
+      Facing partner, 3 changes of Rights and Lefts, finishing by looping
+      into progressed places (the "turn" in the original).
+</code>
+Some variants of the orthodox version follow.
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 <code>
    Dick's Maggot  1702  duple minor, longways
-   Part        Bars        Description
+Part   Bars    Description
-   A1        2        1's change places & lead down center to 2nd place while
+ A1    2     1's change places & lead down center to 2nd place while
 's cast up into 1st place
-        2's change places & lead down center to 2nd place while
+     2's change places & lead down center to 2nd place while
 's cast up into 1st place
-   A2        2        Partners back to back
+ A2    2     Partners back to back
-        Partners 1/2 gypsy to original places
+     Partners 1/2 gypsy to original places
-   B        4        Circular hey, four changes beginning with partner
+ B     4     Circular hey, four changes beginning with partner
-        Partners turn two-hands twice around
+     Partners turn two-hands twice around
-        1's cast to 2nd place while 2's lead up</code>
+     1's cast to 2nd place while 2's lead up</code>

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