| Description |
xxi, 360 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-352), index of works, and general index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Paradox of the establishment composer / David Maw -- Howells the stylist: '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 -- Howells the vcocal composer: 'Hidden artiface' : 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 -- Howells the insrumental composer: 'From "Merry-eye" to Paradise' : the early orchestral music of Herbert Howells / Lewis Foreman ; Lost, remembered, mislaid, rewritten : a documentary study of In Gloucestershire / Paul Andrews ; Style and structure in the oboe sonata and clarinet sonata / Fabian Huss -- Howells the modern: 'Tunes all the way'? : romantic modernism and the piano concertos of Herbert Howells / Jonathan Clinch ; 'I am a "modern" in this, but a Britisher too' : Howells and the Phantasy / David Maw ; Austerity, difficulty and retrospection : the late style of Herbert Howells / Phillip A. Cooke -- Howells in mourning: 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. |
| Subject |
Howells, Herbert, 1892-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Howells, Herbert, 1892-1983. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Howells, Herbert, 1892-1983. |
| Added Author |
Cooke, Phillip A., editor.
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Maw, David Nicholas, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781843838791 |
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1843838796 |
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