Download or read book The Music of Herbert Howells written by Phillip A. Cooke and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was a prodigiously gifted musician and the favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Throughout his long life, he was one of the country's most prominent composers, writing extensively in all genres except the symphony and opera. Yet today he is known mostly for his church music, and there is as yet relatively little serious study of his work. This book is the first large-scale study of Howells's music, affording both detailed consideration of individual works and a broad survey of general characteristics and issues. Its coverage is wide-ranging, addressing all aspects of the composer's prolific output and probing many of the issues that it raises. The essays are gathered in five sections: Howells the Stylist examines one of the most striking aspect of the composer's music, its strongly characterised personal voice; Howells the Vocal Composer addresses both his well-known contribution to church music and his less familiar, but also important, contribution to the genre of solo song; Howells the Instrumental Composer shows that he was no less accomplished for his work in genres without words, for which, in fact, he first made his name; Howells the Modern considers the composer's rather overlooked contribution to the development of a modern voice for British music; and Howells in Mourning explores the important impact of his son's death on his life and work. The composer that emerges from these studies is a complex figure: technically fluent but prone to revision and self-doubt; innovative but also conservative; a composer with an improvisational sense of flow who had a firm grasp of musical form; an exponent of British musical style who owed as much to continental influence as to his national heritage. This volume, comprising a collection of outstanding essays by established writers and emergent scholars, opens up the range of Howells's achievement to a wider audience, both professional and amateur. PHILLIP COOKE is Lecturer in Composition at the University of Aberdeen. DAVID MAW is Tutor and Research Fellow in Music at Oriel College, Oxford, holding Lectureships also at Christ Church, The Queen's and Trinity Colleges. CONTRIBUTORS: Byron Adams, Paul Andrews, Graham Barber, Jonathan Clinch, Phillip A. Cooke, Jeremy Dibble, Lewis Foreman, Fabian Huss, David Maw, Diane Nolan Cooke, Lionel Pike, Paul Spicer, Jonathan White. Foreword by John Rutter.
Download or read book Herbert Howells written by Paul Spicer and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer, organist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster, Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was the leading church music composer of the century and the man who revolutionized it. His cantile settings and anthems, and decades of teaching have ensured him a massive influence which is still growing. Many of his choral works are considered masterpieces, while his ecclesiastical music, "quite possibly sung daily in Britain, " is hailed by musicians the world over.
Download or read book The Music of Herbert Howells written by Peter John Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Herbert Howells Magnificat Nunc Dimittis St Paul s SATB Organ written by Herbert Howells and published by Novello & Co Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Howells composed his Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis evening canticles for St Paul's Cathedral in 1951, going on to become among his most famous and enduring works. These beautiful canticles were composed by a master of setting the Anglican liturgy, and are arranged for SATB Chorus and Organ Accompaniment. These two wonderful works of choral music are characterised by a unique blend of unison harmonies and disparate melodies that highlight each voice perfectly. The lingering notes, crescendos and subtle dynamic changes were composed with the acoustics of that great cathedral in mind, but they also work equally well in any setting.
Download or read book Herbert Howells written by Christopher Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of Herbert Howells written by Peter John Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Herbert Howells Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis Gloucester SATB Organ written by Herbert Howells and published by Novello & Co Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Howells's Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis for the Gloucester service is one of his most popular choral settings. This sheet music is arranged for SATB Choir and Organ. Herbert Howells was a renowned English composer of church music in the Anglican evensong tradition, best known for his 'Hymnus Paradisi' and as a teacher at the Royal College of Music. His lesser-known evening canticles include this piece: with its famous treble duet opening the work, it calmly progresses to an affirmation of the glory of heaven through distinctive Lydian harmony and soaring highs. Each individual voice has its own part to play in this piece, with melodies that rise to uplifting highs and fall to booming lows, the combination of voices blends and binds to create a gliding and soaring unity of harmony. This Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis sheet music is the most accurate transcription available of an awe-inspiring piece that is acclaimed by fans of choral music for its beautiful composition and wondrous voicing.
Download or read book Parry to Finzi written by Trevor Hold and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index"--Jacket.
Download or read book Peacock Pie written by Walter De la Mare and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piano music written by Herbert Howells and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Herbert Howells Hymn For St Cecilia written by Herbert Howells and published by Novello & Co Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For SATB and Organ
Download or read book Herbert Howells written by Royal College of Music (London) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century written by Peter Hardwick and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length survey of 20th -century British music for solo organ. Beginning with a discussion of British organ music in the last decades of the Victorian era, the book focuses on the pieces that the composers wrote, their musical style, possible influences on the composition of specific works, and the details of their composition. Arranged in chronological order according to date of birth are detailed studies on important composers that made especially significant contributions to organ music including Parry, Stanford, Healey Willan, Herbert Howells, Percy Whitlock, Francis Jackson, Peter Racine Fricker, Arthur Wills, and Kenneth Leighton. Composers' biographies, the role of organs and organ building developments, influential political and sociological events, and aesthetic aspects of British musical life are also discussed in detail. In the concluding chapter, the author discusses the major phases and achievements of the century and gauges what may lie ahead in the new millennium. A comprehensive Catalog of Works provides titles of works, dates of composition, details of publishers, and the dates of publication. More than 60 music examples, 12 black and white photos, and an up-to-date bibliography are included.
Download or read book Herbert Howells written by Paul D. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dossier on Herbert Howells written by Hysen Music and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gerald Finzi written by Diana McVeagh and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed biography of one of England's best loved composers, with a full discussion and evaluation of his works. Gerald Finzi is one of the best-known modern English composers. While he is especially famous as a song-writer, for his sensitive settings of poets such as Hardy and Wordsworth, he also wrote in other genres; notable works includethe exquisite cantata Dies Natalis, and his cello concerto. He also exerted a major influence in the musical world as a whole, championing the neglected Ivor Gurney and reviving eighteenth-century composers with the amateur orchestra he founded. In this lively and sensitive study of his life and works, Diana McVeagh, the renowned Elgar and Finzi scholar, has made use of interviews with the main figures in his life, correspondence with contemporaries such as Vaughan Williams, Edmund Blunden, Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra, Howard Ferguson and Herbert Howells, and her access to previously unpublished material in the form of his widow, Joy's, unpublished journal. The Finzithat emerges is a multi-faceted and complex character. The author shows how he developed from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with strong views and a myriad of interests: everything from education, pacifism, vegetarianism, to the Arts and Crafts movement, the English pastoral tradition, English apple varieties, and the significance of ancestry, friendship and marriage in an artist's life. She also discusses every work within the narrative of Finzi's life, and shows what makes his output so outstanding. Diana McVeagh is the author of the highly acclaimed Elgar the Music Maker [2007]; of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians [1980, 2001]; and of the Finzi entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004].
Download or read book Five Pieces for Organ written by Herbert Howells and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Pieces for Organ by Herbert Howells arranged by Robert Fielding from Howells' Clavichord.Ralph's PavanePatrick's SicilianoMalcolm's VisionFinzi's RestDyson's DelightThese five pieces represent a range of musical expression in a collection of miniatures intended as gestures of respect and friendship for Howells' close friends and colleagues. The poignant Finzi's Rest written on the day following Gerald Finzi's death, 'on the morrow of 27th September, 1956' and the Pavane for Ralph Vaughan Williams, who's claim that he could not play the pieces was an invitation to HH to visit and play them for him; these demonstrate the personal connections that share a similarity to another work dedicated to 'my Friends pictured within' written in 1899 by Edward Elgar.'It will be immediately obvious to both player and listener, that these five pieces transfer to the organ remarkably well, giving the player a greater range of dynamics whilst retaining the intimacy within the pieces when using the quieter stops of the organ. Howells' Tudor idiom transcribes with the ease with which composers of that earlier era transferred their music between instruments!' Robert Fielding
