John Hilton the younger (1599-1657)

Лот 73
08.11.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Продан
£ 3 024
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Место проведенияВеликобритания, London
Комиссияsee on Website%
Архив
Аукцион завершен. Ставки на лот больше не принимаются.
Archive
ID 1053187
Лот 73 | John Hilton the younger (1599-1657)
Оценочная стоимость
£ 1 000 – 1 500
John Hilton the younger (1599-1657)
Contemporary manuscript copy of Short service ‘in Gamut’, n.p. [England], n.d. [c.1630-1660s]
The earliest surviving manuscript source for John Hilton the younger’s Short service ‘in Gamut’, written in an attractive 17th-century hand: a previously unknown source for this piece of pre-Restoration Anglican church music.

Three vocal parts, in three gatherings, scored for ‘Contraten[or] Cantoris’, ‘Bassus Decan'y’ and Cantoris Medius by a single scribe in dark brown ink on up to ten staves per page. Two titles + 13 pages, 320 x 205mm, ruled with 10 staves per page, text in English, the title pages of the countertenor and bass parts inscribed ‘Mr John Hiltons short service in Gamut of 4 Parts’. Modern quarter calf cloth folder, parts in paper wrappers.

Provenance:
(1) Christie’s South Kensington, 29 November 2006, lot 361.

(2) Bernard Quaritch, London.

(3) Robert S. Pirie, New York (1934-2015); his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 4 December 2015, lot 454.

(4) Schøyen Collection, MS 5566.

Hilton’s Service 'in Gamut' was thought to survive solely thanks to a score copied in 1814 by Richard Clark (1780-1856), Gentleman of the Chapel Royal: a note on the opening page of his manuscript records that it was assembled from early partbooks. The appearance of our manuscript at auction in the 21st century revealed that it comprises three of the eight parts from which Clark assembled the score (see P. James, ‘John Hilton the Younger's Service 'In Gamut'’, The Musical Times, v. 149, no 1902 ( 2008), pp. 67-70). The work is in six sections: Te Deum laudamus, Benedictus, Responses to the Commandments, Creed, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. A number of deletions and insertions indicate that our manuscript must have been copied from another source.

Confusingly for scholars, John Hilton 'the elder' (c.1560-1608), Organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, and his son, John Hilton 'the younger' (1599-1657), who became Organist of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, in 1628, shared the same Christian name. Four of the five extant services by 'John Hilton' do not differentiate between father and son, but Peter James attributed the Short service to the younger Hilton on stylistic grounds (apparently confirmed by the titles to two of the parts).
Адрес торгов CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Великобритания
Предосмотр
02.11.2023 09:00 – 17:00
03.11.2023 09:00 – 17:00
04.11.2023 12:00 – 17:00
05.11.2023 12:00 – 17:00
06.11.2023 09:00 – 17:00
07.11.2023 09:00 – 17:00
Телефон +44 (0)20 7839 9060
E-mail
Комиссия see on Website
Условия использованияУсловия использования

Связанные термины