Dances in Maggot Pie (Marjorie Heffer and William Porter, 1932, Cambridge)
Table of Contents
| Gossip Joan |  | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 |  | 3 Couple Circle |
| The Gradely Lass | | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 | | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
| Green Willow | | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 | | Facing Couples Becket |
| The Night Cap | | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 | By Choice
Bare Necessities | Square |
| The Northern Lass | | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 | | 4 Couple Longways |
| Parthenia - Maggot Pie | | Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932 | Mrs. Beveridge's Triumph
Bare Necessities | 4 Couple Longways |
Number
of dances | Number
of interpretations | Number
with music |
|---|
| 25 | 26 | 5 |
Marjorie Heffer and William Porter published Maggot Pie in 1932 (probably assisted by Arthur Heffer, Marjorie's husband, who died before publication). This was the first book of new country dances published in England since about 1850. It was the first book that used the old "up a double/siding/arming" since Playford stopped printing them in 1679.
Unfortunately the dances were not widely accepted, the very forward of the book, written by Douglas Kennedy, director of the EFDS, damns it with faint praise:
In any case these maggots ... deserve the encouragement of every English Dancer, although they cannot be officially sponsored by the E.F.D.S. Who knows what may be their ultimate fate? Some may die after a short existence. Others may live to be collected...
Well, here they all are, collected, 90 years later.
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