Annotation:Just so in the North
X:1 T:Just so in the North M:C L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune C:Ignatius Sancho B:Sancho – Minuets Cotillons & Country Dances (1767, p. 16) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2g2 dBdB|G2g2 ecec|G2g2 dBdB|edcB AFED| G2g2 dBdB|G2g2 ecec|G2g2 ecBA|EcAF G2G,2:| |:g2b2 afed|e2g2 dBAG|c2 ec B2 dB|A2 BG AFED| G2g2 dBdB|c2 a2 fdfd|g2b2 ecec|BAGF G2 G,2:|]
JUST SO IN THE NORTH. English, Reel and Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The country dance and melody were composed by biography:Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) and were first printed in his Minuets, Cotillons & Country Dances...by an African (1767, p. 16). Sancho was a former slave who became emancipated and found advancement and patronage from the wealthy Montagu family. He published four collections of minuets, country dances and songs in the second half of the 18th century. The country dance directions and tune were also printed in Straight & Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favorite Country Dances vol. 1 (c. 1775) and Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (London, 1780), one of several tunes from Sancho's collection appropriated without credit to the composer.
