List of compositions by Herbert Howells explained

Works by the British composer Herbert Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983).

Sacred choral works

Service settings and canticles

• Missa Sine Nomine (Mass in the Dorian Mode) (1912)^[1]
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G (1918)
• Requiem (1936)
• Collegium Regale (1944/45)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Men's Voices and Organ (1941)
• Gloucester Service (1946)
• Te Deum and Benedictus for Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury (1947)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (New College Oxford) (1949)
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral (1950)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Worcester) (1951)
• Hymnus Paradisi (1951)
• Te Deum and Benedictus for St George's Chapel, Windsor (1952)
• Missa Sabriensis for Worcester Cathedral (1954)
• Office of the Holy Communion (Collegium Regale) (1956)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor (1956)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St Peter's, Westminster) (1957)
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense) (1957)
• Missa Aedis Christi (1958)
• Stabat Mater (1965)
• Te Deum for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (1965)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Sarum) (1966)
• Te Deum for Searle Wright at St Paul's Church Columbia University (1966)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Winchester) (1967)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Chichester) (1967)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St. Augustine's Birmingham) (1967)
• Preces and Responses (1967)
• Coventry Mass (1968)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Hereford) (1969)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense) (1970)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (York) (1973)
• Te Deum for the West Ridings Cathedrals Festival (1974)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Dallas) (1975)
• Te Deum for Washington Cathedral

Hymn tunes

• Erwin (1967)^[2]
• In Manus Tuas (1968)
• Kensington (1968)
• Michael ("All My Hope on God is Founded") (1938)
• Newnham (1968)
• Salisbury (1968)
• Sancta Civitas (1962)
• Twigworth ("God is love, let heaven adore him") (1968)

Anthems

• Even such is Time – motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (1913)
• Nunc Dimittis − motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (c. 1914)
• Regina Caeli for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
• Salve Regina for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
• O Salutaris Hostia for SATB unaccompanied (1915; publ. 1987)
• A True Story − secular 2-part song for female voices and piano (1917)
• Here is the little door for SATB unaccompanied (1918)
• Haec Dies for SATB unaccompanied (MS dated 1918)
• A Spotless Rose for SATB unaccompanied (1919)
• Blessed are the Dead − motet for double choir SATB.SATB unaccompanied (1920; unfinished - completed by Patrick Russill)
• A Golden Lullaby − Unison song for voices and piano (1920)
• Sing lullaby for SATB unaccompanied (1920)
• O Lord, Who Createst Man − 3-part song for female voices and piano (1923)
• When First Thine Eyes Unveil for SATB & Organ (1925)
• My Eyes For Beauty Pine for SATB & Organ (1925)
• Tune thy Music − Unison song for voices and piano (1927)
• Requiem for SATB unaccompanied; words from various sources. (1932; publ. 1981)
• O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem for SATB & Organ (1941)
• We have heard with our ears for SATB & Organ (1941)
• Like as the hart for SATB & Organ (1941)
• Let God Arise for SATB & Organ (1941)
• God is Gone Up for SATB & Organ (1944; publ. 1958)
• The Key of the Kingdom − 2-part song for female voices and piano (1948)
• Where Wast Thou? − Motet for Canterbury for SATB & Organ (1948)
• King of Glory for SATB & Organ (1949)
• Levavi oculos meos for unison Sopranos & Organ (1950’s?)
• Long Long Ago for SATB unaccompanied (1950)
• Behold O God Our Defender for SATB & Organ (1952)
• The House of the Mind for SATB & Organ (1954)
• A Christmas Carol − So now is come our Joyful'st Feast − Unison song for voices and piano (1958)
• A Hymn for St. Cecilia for SATB & Organ (1960)
• Coventry Antiphon for SATB & Organ (1961)
• A Sequence for St. Michael for SATB & Organ (1961)
• Take Him, Earth, for cherishing − Motet in memory of J. F. Kennedy, for SATB unaccompanied (MS dated June 6 1964)
• Holy Spirit Ever Dwelling − Hymn Tune, Salisbury (1964)
• God is love, let Heav'n adore him − Hymn Tune, Twigworth (1964)
• God be in my head for SATB unaccompanied (1966)
• Benedictus es, Domine for SATB & Organ (1967)
• Preces and Responses for SATB unaccompanied (1967)
• Lord By Whose Breath All Souls and Seeds are Living - Hymn Tune, Erwin (publ. 1967)
• O Holy City seen of John − Hymn Tune, Sancta Civitas (1968)
• One Thing have I Desired for SATB unaccompanied (1968)
• Thee Will I Love for SATB & Organ (1970)^[3]
• Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity for SATB & Organ (1972)
• Come my Soul for SATB unaccompanied (1972)
• Exultate Deo for SATB & Organ (1974)
• The Fear of the Lord for SATB & Organ (1976)
• I love all beauteous things for SATB & Organ (1977)
• Sweetest of Sweets for SATB unaccompanied (1977)
• Tryste Noël for SATB & Piano (1977)
• Hills of the North, Rejoice for SSA & Organ (1977)
• Antiphon for SATB unaccompanied (1978)
• I would be true for SATB & Organ (1978)

Orchestral works

• Concerto for String Orchestra (1938)
• Fanfare (1977)
• The King's Herald (1937)
• Cello Concerto (1936)
• Merry-Eye (1920)
• Music for a Prince: Two Pieces for Orchestra (1948)
• Penguinski (1933)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 39 (1925)
• Serenade for 4 solo violins and string orchestra (1917)
• Puck's Minuet (1917)
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 (1913)
• Suite for string orchestra (1942)
• Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra, Op. 15 (1917)

Chamber works

• Three Dances (1915)
• Lady Audrey's Suite, Op. 19 (String Quartet No. 1) (1915)
• Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916)
• Fantasy String Quartet, Op. 25 (String Quartet No. 2) (1917)
• Rhapsodic Quintet, Op. 31 (1919)
• String Quartet No. 3, "In Gloucestershire" (1916–20)
• Oboe Sonata (1942) (suppressed)
• Clarinet Sonata (1946)

Keyboard works

Piano, clavichord

(Some of these are specifically for piano, some are for clavichord but playable on either.)

• Summer Idyls (1911)^[4]
• Phantasy (1917)
• Harlequin Dreaming (1918)
• Lambert's Clavichord, opus 41 (1927)
• My Lord Harewood's Galliard (1949)
• Howells' Clavichord (1961)
• Polka for two pianos (1951)
• Finzi: His Rest (1956)
• Siciliana (1958)
• Pavane and Galliard (1964)
• Petrus Suite (1967-73)

Organ

• Cradle Song (1913)
• Flourish for a Bidding (1969)
• Fugue, Chorale and Epilogue (1940)
• Intrada No. 2 (1941)
• Master Tallis's Testament (1940)
• Organ Sonata No. 1 in C (1911)
• Paean (1940)
• Partita (1972)
• Prelude De Profundis (1958)
• Preludio Sine Nomine (1940)
• Three Rhapsodies (1919)
• Rhapsody No. 4 Bene Psallite in Vociferatione (1958)
• Saraband for the Morning of Easter (1940)
• Saraband in Modo Elegiaco (1945)
• Siciliano for a High Ceremony (1952)
• Six Pieces for organ (1945)
• Six Short Pieces for Organ
• Organ Sonata No. 2 (1933)
• St. Louis comes to Clifton (1977)
• Epilogue (Hovingham Sketches) (1974)
• Three Pieces for organ (1977)
• Three Psalm Preludes Set 1 (1916)
• Three Psalm Preludes Set 2 (1939)
• Two Pieces (1959)
• Two Slow Airs for Organ (1928)

Chorus and Orchestra

• Behold, O God, Our Defender (1952)
• An English Mass (1955)
• The House of the Mind (1954)
• A Hymn for St Cecilia (1960)
• Hymnus Paradisi (1938)
• A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song (1933)
• A Maid Peerless (1951)
• Michael- a Fanfare Setting
• Missa Sabrinensis - The Severn Mass (1954)
• O Mortal Man (Sussex Mummers' Carol)
• Sine Nomine: A Phantasy (1922)
• Sir Patrick Spens (1917)
• Stabat Mater (1963)
• Te Deum (1944)
• When Cats Run Home (1907)

Harp

• Prelude for Harp (1915)

References

Sources

• Book: Cooke . Phillip A. . Maw . David Nicholas . The Music of Herbert Howells . 2013 . Boydell & Brewer Ltd . 9781843838791 . https://books.google.com/books?id=-hzeAgAAQBAJ&q=herbert%20howells%20compositions&pg=PA309 . Appendix:Catalogue of the Works of Herbert Howells . 23 September 2019 . en. 309–352.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stevenson . Joseph . Herbert Howells Compositions . AllMusic . 26 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191026155041/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/herbert-howells-mn0001210970/compositions . 26 October 2019 . en-us.
2. Web site: Herbert Howells . hymnary.org . 23 September 2019 . en.
3. Web site: Herbert Howells - Thee Will I Love (SATB) . 2022-10-29 . www.boosey.com.
4. Schellhorn, Matthew. 'Resurrecting Howells's extraordinary piano works' in Gramophone, July 2020