en List of compositions by Herbert Howells

Works by the British composer Herbert Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983).

Sacred choral works

Dedications

King's College Chapel

Gloucester Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

Many choral works by Howells are dedicated to places of worship in England and elsewhere

Service settings and canticles

Missa Sine Nomine (Mass in the Dorian Mode) (1912)^[1]^[2]
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G (1918)
Requiem (1936)
Collegium Regale (1944/45)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Men's Voices and Organ (1941)
Gloucester Service (1946)
Te Deum and Benedictus for Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury (1947)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (New College Oxford) (1949)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral (1950)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Worcester) (1951)
Hymnus Paradisi (1951)
Te Deum and Benedictus for St George's Chapel, Windsor (1952)
Missa Sabriensis for Worcester Cathedral (1954)
Office of the Holy Communion (Collegium Regale) (1956)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor (1956)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St Peter's, Westminster) (1957)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense) (1957)
Missa Aedis Christi (1958)
Stabat Mater (1965)
Te Deum for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (1965)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Sarum) (1966)
Te Deum for Searle Wright at St Paul's Church Columbia University (1966)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Winchester) (1967)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Chichester) (1967)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St. Augustine's Birmingham) (1967)
Preces and Responses (1967)
Coventry Mass (1968)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Hereford) (1969)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense) (1970)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (York) (1973)
Te Deum for the West Ridings Cathedrals Festival (1974)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Dallas) (1975)
Te Deum for Washington Cathedral

Hymn tunes

Erwin (1967)^[3]^[2]
In Manus Tuas (1968)
Kensington (1968)
Michael ("All My Hope on God is Founded") (1938)
Newnham (1968)
Salisbury (1968)
Sancta Civitas (1962)
Twigworth ("God is love, let heaven adore him") (1968)

Anthems

Even such is Time – motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (1913)
Nunc Dimittis − motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (c. 1914)
Regina Caeli for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
Salve Regina for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
O Salutaris Hostia for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
A True Story − secular 2-part song for female voices and piano (1917)
Here is the little door for SATB unaccompanied (1918)
Haec Dies for SATB unaccompanied (MS dated 1918)
A Spotless Rose for SATB unaccompanied (1919)
Blessed are the Dead − motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (1920; unfinished - completed by Patrick Russill)
A Golden Lullaby − Unison song for voices and piano (1920)
Sing lullaby for SATB unaccompanied (1920)
O Lord, Who Createst Man − 3-part song for female voices and piano (1923)
When First Thine Eyes Unveil for SATB & Organ (1925)
My Eyes For Beauty Pine for SATB & Organ (1925)
Tune thy Music − Unison song for voices and piano (1927)
Requiem for SATB unaccompanied; words from various sources. (1932; publ. 1981)
O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem for SATB & Organ (1941)
We have heard with our ears for SATB & Organ (1941)
Like as the hart for SATB & Organ (1941)
Let God Arise for SATB & Organ (1941)
God is Gone Up for SATB & Organ (1944; publ. 1958)
The Key of the Kingdom − 2-part song for female voices and piano (1948)
Where Wast Thou? − Motet for Canterbury for SATB & Organ (1948)
King of Glory for SATB & Organ (1949)
Levavi oculos meos for unison Sopranos & Organ (1950’s?)
Long Long Ago for SATB unaccompanied (1950)
Behold O God Our Defender for SATB & Organ (1952)
The House of the Mind for SATB & Organ (1954)
A Christmas Carol − So now is come our Joyful'st Feast − Unison song for voices and piano (1958)
A Hymn for St. Cecilia for SATB & Organ (1960)
Coventry Antiphon for SATB & Organ (1961)
A Sequence for St. Michael for SATB & Organ (1961)
Take Him, Earth, for cherishing − Motet in memory of J. F. Kennedy, for SATB unaccompanied (MS dated June 6 1964)
Holy Spirit Ever Dwelling − Hymn Tune, Salisbury (1964)
God is love, let Heav'n adore him − Hymn Tune, Twigworth (1964)
God be in my head for SATB unaccompanied (1966)
Benedictus es, Domine for SATB & Organ (1967)
Preces and Responses for SATB unaccompanied (1967)
Lord By Whose Breath All Souls and Seeds are Living - Hymn Tune, Erwin (publ. 1967)
O Holy City seen of John − Hymn Tune, Sancta Civitas (1968)
One Thing have I Desired for SATB unaccompanied (1968)
Thee Will I Love for SATB & Organ (1970)^[4]
Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity for SATB & Organ (1972)
Come my Soul for SATB unaccompanied (1972)
Exultate Deo for SATB & Organ (1974)
The Fear of the Lord for SATB & Organ (1976)
I love all beauteous things for SATB & Organ (1977)
Sweetest of Sweets for SATB unaccompanied (1977)
Tryste Noël for SATB & Piano (1977)
Hills of the North, Rejoice for SSA & Organ (1977)
Antiphon for SATB unaccompanied (1978)
I would be true for SATB & Organ (1978)

Orchestral works

Concerto for String Orchestra (1938)^[1]^[2]
Fanfare (1977)
The King's Herald (1937)
Cello Concerto (1936)^[1]^[2]
Merry-Eye (1920)
Music for a Prince: Two Pieces for Orchestra (1948)
Penguinski (1933)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 39 (1925)
Serenade for 4 solo violins and string orchestra (1917)
Puck's Minuet (1917)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 (1913)
Suite for string orchestra (1942)
Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra, Op. 15 (1917)

Chamber works

Three Dances (1915)
Lady Audrey's Suite, Op. 19 (String Quartet No. 1) (1915)
Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916)
Fantasy String Quartet, Op. 25 (String Quartet No. 2) (1917)
Rhapsodic Quintet, Op. 31 (1919)
String Quartet No. 3, "In Gloucestershire" (1916–20)
Oboe Sonata (1942) (suppressed)
Clarinet Sonata (1946)

Keyboard works

Piano, clavichord

(Some of these are specifically for piano, some are for clavichord but playable on either.)

Summer Idyls (1911)^[5]
Phantasy (1917)
Harlequin Dreaming (1918)
Lambert's Clavichord, opus 41 (1927)
My Lord Harewood's Galliard (1949)
Howells' Clavichord (1961)^[1]^[2]
Polka for two pianos (1951)
Finzi: His Rest (1956)
Siciliana (1958)
Pavane and Galliard (1964)
Petrus Suite (1967-73)

Organ

Cradle Song (1913)^[1]^[2]
Flourish for a Bidding (1969)
Fugue, Chorale and Epilogue (1940)
Intrada No. 2 (1941)
Master Tallis's Testament (1940)
Organ Sonata No. 1 in C (1911)
Paean (1940)
Partita (1972)
Prelude De Profundis (1958)
Preludio Sine Nomine (1940)
Three Rhapsodies (1919)
Rhapsody No. 4 Bene Psallite in Vociferatione (1958)
Saraband for the Morning of Easter (1940)
Saraband in Modo Elegiaco (1945)
Siciliano for a High Ceremony (1952)
Six Pieces for organ (1945)
Six Short Pieces for Organ
Organ Sonata No. 2 (1933)
St. Louis comes to Clifton (1977)
Epilogue (Hovingham Sketches) (1974)
Three Pieces for organ (1977)
Three Psalm Preludes Set 1 (1916)
Three Psalm Preludes Set 2 (1939)
Two Pieces (1959)
Two Slow Airs for Organ (1928)

Chorus and Orchestra

Behold, O God, Our Defender (1952)^[1]^[2]
An English Mass (1955)
The House of the Mind (1954)
A Hymn for St Cecilia (1960)
Hymnus Paradisi (1938)
A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song (1933)
A Maid Peerless (1951)
Michael- a Fanfare Setting
Missa Sabrinensis - The Severn Mass (1954)
O Mortal Man (Sussex Mummers' Carol)
Sine Nomine: A Phantasy (1922)
Sir Patrick Spens (1917)
Stabat Mater (1963)
Te Deum (1944)
When Cats Run Home (1907)

Harp

Prelude for Harp (1915)

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cooke & Maw 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Stevenson, Joseph. "Herbert Howells Compositions". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^ "Herbert Howells". hymnary.org. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
^ "Herbert Howells - Thee Will I Love (SATB)". www.boosey.com. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
^ Schellhorn, Matthew. 'Resurrecting Howells's extraordinary piano works' in Gramophone, July 2020

Sources

Cooke, Phillip A.; Maw, David Nicholas (2013). "Appendix:Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells". The Music of Herbert Howells. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 309–352. ISBN 9781843838791. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

[FOOTNOTECookeMaw2013-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cooke & Maw 2013.

[allmusic-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Stevenson, Joseph. "Herbert Howells Compositions". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.

[hymns-3] "Herbert Howells". hymnary.org. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

[4] "Herbert Howells - Thee Will I Love (SATB)". www.boosey.com. Retrieved 29 October 2022.

[5] Schellhorn, Matthew. 'Resurrecting Howells's extraordinary piano works' in Gramophone, July 2020

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