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Auction archive: Lot number 110

Swayne, Giles (b.1946)

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,338 - US$3,117
Price realised:
£4,750
ca. US$7,404
Auction archive: Lot number 110

Swayne, Giles (b.1946)

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,338 - US$3,117
Price realised:
£4,750
ca. US$7,404
Beschreibung:

Swayne, Giles (b.1946) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS BY GILES SWAYNE AND ROBERT SAXTON Autograph working manuscript of Adam lay ibounden Op.126 for solo cello and double choir. signed ("Giles Swayne"), written for St John's College Cambridge, notated in pencil on one nine-stave system per page, with additional working sketches on the lower staves (up to fourteen staves per page in all), with many deletions, additions, trials and revisions, marked up for performance in blue, purple, black and red inks, with choral and instrumental designations for two facing four-part groups and cello ("Dec[ani] R", "Vc." and "Cant[oris] L" ) at the beginning, 13 pages, oblong folio (c.42 x 30cms), 18-stave paper, together with a copy of the printed edition by Gonzaga Music Ltd, no place, 6-7 September 2009, the leaves stapled for performance, vertical fold throughout Illustrated (left) with the kind permission of the composer and Gonzaga Music Ltd. Saxton, Robert. (b.1953) Autograph manuscript and extensive sketches of "Song Without Words", for clarinet and piano, notated in pencil on three three-stave systems per page, 3 pages, 4to, 2004; together with sketches, drafts and tone-rows for the work, written on up to 22 staves per page, in black, red and green ink and pencil, 8 pages, folio and oblong folio (c.41.5 x 29.5cms), 2004 Illustrated (right) with the kind permission of the composer

Auction archive: Lot number 110
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Swayne, Giles (b.1946) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS BY GILES SWAYNE AND ROBERT SAXTON Autograph working manuscript of Adam lay ibounden Op.126 for solo cello and double choir. signed ("Giles Swayne"), written for St John's College Cambridge, notated in pencil on one nine-stave system per page, with additional working sketches on the lower staves (up to fourteen staves per page in all), with many deletions, additions, trials and revisions, marked up for performance in blue, purple, black and red inks, with choral and instrumental designations for two facing four-part groups and cello ("Dec[ani] R", "Vc." and "Cant[oris] L" ) at the beginning, 13 pages, oblong folio (c.42 x 30cms), 18-stave paper, together with a copy of the printed edition by Gonzaga Music Ltd, no place, 6-7 September 2009, the leaves stapled for performance, vertical fold throughout Illustrated (left) with the kind permission of the composer and Gonzaga Music Ltd. Saxton, Robert. (b.1953) Autograph manuscript and extensive sketches of "Song Without Words", for clarinet and piano, notated in pencil on three three-stave systems per page, 3 pages, 4to, 2004; together with sketches, drafts and tone-rows for the work, written on up to 22 staves per page, in black, red and green ink and pencil, 8 pages, folio and oblong folio (c.41.5 x 29.5cms), 2004 Illustrated (right) with the kind permission of the composer

Auction archive: Lot number 110
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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