Ignatius Sancho: Music of an Eighteenth-Century Black EnglishmanThe Black British writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (ca. 1729-1780) may have been born into slavery. By 1749, he had become part of the household of the Duke of Montagu, where he worked as a valet, later becoming a shopkeeper in the neighborhood of Westminster. Sancho is known today as a writer through his posthumously published Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1782).
Tracks: 1.1 Minuet 13th in E-Flat Major with Horns 1.2 Minuets, Etc.-The Friendly Visit 1.3 Complaint 1.4 Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779-Strawberries and Cream 1.5 Minuets, Etc.-Hornpipe in B-Flat Major 1.6 Horse Grenadier's March 1.7 Minuet 3 in G Major with Horns 1.8 Ode Upon Dedicating a Building and Erecting a Monument to Shakespeare-Sweetest Bard 1.9 Minuets, Etc.-Sir Harry Flutter 1.10 Minuet in C Major 1.11 Minuets, Etc.-Minuetto I in F Major with Horns 1.12 Sweetest Bard 1.13 Minuets, Etc.-Minuet 5 and Minuet 6 1.14 Minuets, Etc.-Les Contes Des Fees 1.15 Minuetto 2 in B-Flat Major with Horns 1.16 Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779-Lord Dalkeith's Reel 1.17 Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779-The Royal Bishop 1.18 Anacreon Ode [XXIII] 1.19 Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779-Mungo's Delight with Variation By Rebecca Cypess 1.20 Minuets, Etc.-La Maison de la Reine 1.21 Thou Soft Flowing Avon 1.22 Echo Tune 1.23 Minuets, Etc.-Minuet 5th 1.24 Cotillions, Etc.-The Runaway 1.25 Minuets, Etc.-Christmas Eve 1.26 Kate of Aberdeen 1.27 Minuets, Etc.-Minuet 11th with Variation By Rebecca Cypess 1.28 Minuets, Etc.-Gavotta in a Major 1.29 Kate of Aberdeen 1.30 Minuets, Etc.-Who'd a Thought It 1.31 Cotillions, Etc.-The Feathers 1.32 Cotillions, Etc.-Corporal Trim 1.33 Minuet 1st in D Major with Horns 1.34 Minuets, Etc.-Air in D Major 1.35 Cotillions, Etc.-The Sampler 1.36 Cotillions, Etc.-Shandy Hall 1.37 Friendship, Source of Joy 1.38 Minuets, Etc.-Richmond Hill
