Mr Edwards Maggot

Mr Edwards Maggot is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Nathaniel Kynasston in 1718 and published in Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1718. It was interpreted by Andrew Shaw in 2024 and published in The Irish Howle. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 40 bars.

Kynaston writes:

The first strain twice the last but once
The 1^st. man and 2^d wo. change place dance to each other and turn hands half round the 1^st. wo. and 2^d. man do the same the 1^st. man take the 2^d. man by his right hand and slip inside below him then the 3^d. by his left hand and slip outside him and the 1^st. wo. do the same on her side at the same time meet below th 3^d. cu. the 1^st. man take his partner by the right hand and change place change sides then the 1^st. cu. change in the 2^d. cu. place take all six hands go half round and back again the 1^st. man cast up his partner follow him take hands and turn down the middle

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, circle, cast, lead, rights and lefts (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2024 by Andrew Shaw. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.