The Music of Herbert Howells

Phillip A. Cooke, David Maw

The first large-scale study of the music of Herbert Howells, prodigiously gifted musician and favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

Foreword - John RutterIntroduction: Paradox of an establishment composer - David Maw'In matters of art friendship should not count': Stanford and Howells - Jonathan WhiteHowells and Counterpoint - Lionel PikeWindow on a Complex Style: Six Pieces for Organ - Diane Nolan Cooke'Hidden Artifice': Howells as Song-Writer - Jeremy DibbleA 'Wholly New Chapter' in Service Music: Collegium Regale and the Gloucester Service - Phillip A. CookeHowells's Use of the Melisma: Word Setting in his Songs and Choral Music - Paul Spicer'From Merry Eye to Paradise': the Early Orchestral Music of Herbert Howells - Lewis ForemanLost, Remembered, Mislaid, Re-written: A documentary study of In Gloucestershire - Paul AndrewsStyle and Structure in the Oboe Sonata and Clarinet Sonata - Fabian Huss'Tunes all the way'? Romantic Modernism and the Piano Concertos of Herbert Howells - Jonathan Clinch'a "modern"...but a Britisher too': Howells and the Phantasy - David MawAusterity, Difficulty and Retrospection: The Late Style of Herbert Howells - Phillip A. Cooke'In Modo Elegiaco': Howells and the Sarabande - Graham BarberOn Hermeneutics in Howells: Some Thoughts on Interpreting his Cello Concerto - Jonathan ClinchMusical Cenotaph: Howells's Hymnus Paradisi and Sites of Mourning - Byron AdamsAppendix: Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells - Paul AndrewsBibliography of Works Cited