maggot

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 276 words | Copyright

maggot. Old Eng. word meaning ‘fanciful idea’, used by 16th- and 17th-cent. composers in titles of instr. pieces, often country dances, e.g. ‘My Lady Winwoods Maggot’. Revived in 20th-cent. by Peter Maxwell Davies in his Miss Donnithorne's Maggot.

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