Introduction : Paradox of an Establishment Composer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Musical Examples x
5. List of Tables xv
6. List of Contributors xvi
7. Foreword xviii
8. Acknowledgements xix
9. Introduction : Paradox of an Establishment Composer 1
10. Part I Howells the Stylist
11. 1 ‘In matters of art friendship should not count’: Stanford and Howells 9
12. 2 Howells and Counterpoint 22
13. 3 Window on a Complex Style: Six Pieces for Organ 37
14. PART II Howells the Vocal Composer
15. 4 ‘Hidden Artifi ce’: Howells as Song- Writer 61
16. 5 A ‘Wholly New Chapter’ in Service Music: Collegium regale and the Gloucester Service 86
17. 6 Howells’s Use of the Melisma: Word Setting in His Songs and Choral Music 100
18. Part III Howells the Instrumental Composer
19. 7 ‘From “Merry- Eye” to Paradise’: Th e Early Orchestral Music of Herbert Howells 117
20. 8 Lost, Remembered, Mislaid, Rewritten: A Documentary Study of In Gloucestershire 139
21. 9 Style and Structure in the Oboe Sonata and Clarinet Sonata 153
22. Part IV Howells the Modern
23. 10 ‘Tunes all the way’? Romantic Modernism and the Piano Concertos of Herbert Howells 169
24. 11 ‘I am a “modern” in this, but a Britisher too’: Howells and the Phantasy 185
25. 12 Austerity, Diffi culty and Retrospection: Th e Late Style of Herbert Howells 222
26. Part V Howells in Mourning
27. 13 In modo elegiaco : Howells and the Sarabande 239
28. 14 On Hermeneutics in Howells: Some Th oughts on Interpreting His Cello Concerto 274
29. 15 Musical Cenotaph: Howells’s Hymnus paradisi and Sites of Mourning 285
30. appendix Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells 309
31. Bibliography 347
32. Index of Works by Herbert Howells 353
33. General Index 356