Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

A major advance towards a fuller and more balanced understanding of the composer.
*THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION*

Superb and highly welcome addition to the literature on Howells ... goes a very considerable way towards demonstrating that this neglect is indeed highly unjust ... Unprecedented insight into both known and unfairly neglected corners of his oeuvre and should be keenly sought by anyone with an interest in his work and English music in the twentieth century.
*CHOMBEC News*

Now we can all appreciate these works afresh, with the useful and pertinent insights afforded by this welcome volume.
*INTERNATIONAL PIANO*

Eye opening dimensions ... fascinating ... Above all, this collection of essays emphasises purely and simply what a sophisticated and accomplished composer he was - headed up by a cameo of a foreword in which Howells enthusiast John Rutter expertly and engagingly sets the scene.
*CLASSICAL MUSIC, December 2013*

The first large-scale and in-depth survey of his music ... Phillip A. Cooke and David Maw have curated and contributed to an excellent resource for anyone who wants to understand fully Howells's contribution to his musical landscape.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, February 2014*