The Music of Herbert Howells (EPDF) von Phillip A. Cooke

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 Rutter
Introduction: Paradox of an establishment composer - David Maw
'In matters of art friendship should not count': Stanford and Howells - Jonathan White
Howells and Counterpoint - Lionel Pike
Window on a Complex Style: Six Pieces for Organ - Diane Nolan Cooke
'Hidden Artifice': Howells as Song-Writer - Jeremy Dibble
A 'Wholly New Chapter' in Service Music:Collegium Regale and theGloucester Service - Phillip A. Cooke
Howells'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 Foreman
Lost, Remembered, Mislaid, Re-written: A documentary study ofIn Gloucestershire - Paul Andrews
Style 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 Maw
Austerity, Difficulty and Retrospection: The Late Style of Herbert Howells - Phillip A. Cooke
'In Modo Elegiaco': Howells and the Sarabande - Graham Barber
On Hermeneutics in Howells: Some Thoughts on Interpreting his Cello Concerto - Jonathan Clinch
Musical Cenotaph: Howells'sHymnus Paradisi and Sites of Mourning - Byron Adams
Appendix: Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells - Paul Andrews
Bibliography of Works Cited