The Music of Herbert Howells
1st Edition
Published on 18. October 2013
382 pages
978-1-78204-184-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).
JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).
Content
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 the Gloucester 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 of In 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's Hymnus Paradisi and Sites of Mourning - Byron Adams
Appendix: Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells - Paul Andrews
Bibliography of Works Cited
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 the Gloucester 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 of In 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's Hymnus Paradisi and Sites of Mourning - Byron Adams
Appendix: Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells - Paul Andrews
Bibliography of Works Cited
