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List Of Compositions By Herbert Howells
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) * ''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 Bendictus 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 Bendictus 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 (St. Peter's, Westminster)'' (1957) * ''Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, the youngest of the six children of Oliver Howells, a plumber, painter, decorator and builder, and his wife Elizabeth. His father played the organ at the local Baptist church, and Herbert himself showed early musical promise, first deputising for his father, and then moving at the age of eleven to the local Church of England parish church as choirboy and unofficial deputy organist. The Howells family's risky financial situation came to a head when Oliver filed for bankruptcy in September 1904, when Herbert was nearly 12. This was a deep humiliation in a small community at the time and one from which Howells never fully recovered. Financially assisted by a member of the family of Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, who had ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, a period which spanned the Wars of the Roses and three subsequent decades. The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. It is a landmark and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge. Construction Henry VI planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose Chapel is very similar, but not on the scale intended by Henry). The King decided the dimensions of the Chapel. Reginald Ely was most likely the architect and worked on the site since 1446. Two years earlier Reginald was charged with sourcing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem (Howells)
The Requiem by Herbert Howells was written in 1932, but first published almost fifty years later in 1981. It is set for unaccompanied choir with soloists, using a combination of texts from the traditional Requiem mass and other sacred sources: Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd"), Psalm 121 ("I will lift up mine eyes"), "Salvator mundi" ("O Saviour of the world" in English), "Requiem aeternam" (two different settings), and "I heard a voice from heaven". After the death of his son Michael in 1935, Howells used much of the material from the Requiem in his work Hymnus Paradisi for soloists, large chorus and orchestra, which was first performed at the Three Choirs Festival in 1950. The original ''a capella'' Requiem remained unperformed until 1980, when the BBC Singers gave the premiere performance under John Poole, with the score published by Novello & Co, Novello the following year. See also *List of compositions by Herbert Howells References Compositions by Herbert Howells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegium Regale (Howells)
is a collection of choral settings by the English composer Herbert Howells of the canticles for the Anglican services of Mattins, Holy Communion and Evening Prayer. Scored for four-part choir, solo tenor and organ, the pieces were written between 1944 and 1956 "for the King's College, Cambridge" ( in Latin). The first of the pieces were first published by Novello in 1947, and they have become a popular piece of music in the Anglican church music repertoire. Text The text of the first service setting for the daily service of Mattins in the Anglican church consists of two pieces: the , an ancient Latin Christian hymn; and the a setting of Psalm 100. The setting of the evening canticles, part of the Anglican daily service of Evening Prayer, consists of the (''Song of Mary'') and (''Song of Simeon''). Mary sings the Magnificat ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") on the occasion of her visit to Elizabeth, as narrated in the Gospel of Luke (). Simeon sings the Nunc dimittis ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucester Service
The ''Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral'', also known as the ''Gloucester Service'', is a setting by the English composer Herbert Howells of the and for the Anglican service of Evensong. Scored for four-part choir and organ, it was written in 1946 for Gloucester Cathedral. It was published by Novello in 1947. Text The (Song of Mary) and the (Song of Simeon) are biblical canticles. Mary sings the Magnificat ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") on the occasion of her visit to Elizabeth, as narrated in the Gospel of Luke (). Simeon sings the Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace") when Jesus is presented in the temple (). The canticles are part of the daily service of Evening Prayer in the Anglican church and have been set to music frequently. Music Howells set the combination of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis 20 times, taking the words from the ''Book of Common Prayer''. The ''Gloucester Service'', his sixth setting, was wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis For St Paul's Cathedral
The and for St Paul's Cathedral, also known as the ''St Paul's Service'', is a setting by the English composer Herbert Howells of the and for the Anglican service of Evensong. Scored for four-part choir and organ, it was written in 1950 for St Paul's Cathedral in London. History and text The (Song of Mary) and the (Song of Simeon) are biblical canticles. Mary sings the Magnificat ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") on the occasion of her visit to Elizabeth, as narrated in the Gospel of Luke (). Simeon sings the Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace") when Jesus is presented in the temple (). The canticles are part of the daily service of Evening Prayer in the Anglican church and have been set to music frequently. Howells set the combination of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis 20 times, taking the words from the ''Book of Common Prayer''. The ''St Paul's Service'' is scored for a four-part choir and organ. He finished it at his home in Barnes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hymnus Paradisi
''Hymnus Paradisi'' is a choral work by Herbert Howells for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra. The work was inspired in part by the death from polio of his son Michael in 1935. Howells wrote the work from 1936 to 1938, drawing on material from the then-unpublished ''Requiem'' of 1932, but then retained the music privately, without public performance. Howells maintained later in life that Ralph Vaughan Williams convinced him to allow the work to be performed publicly at the Three Choirs Festival. However, his former pupil and biographer Paul Spicer contends that Howells first showed the music to Herbert Sumsion, organist of Gloucester Cathedral, who in turn showed it to Gerald Finzi, and that only after these two expressed their enthusiasm did Howells show the music to Vaughan Williams. The title 'Hymnus Paradisi' was suggested by Sumsion. The work received its successful premiere at the Festival in 1950. The score was published in 1951. At one time the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All My Hope On God Is Founded
"All My Hope on God is Founded" is a well-known hymn, originally German, which was translated into English in 1899 and which established itself in the latter part of the twentieth century. History Words The original words "Meine Hoffnung stehet feste" were written around 1680 by Joachim Neander. In 1899 these were freely translated into English by Robert Bridges. He was, at the time, living in the Berkshire village of Yattendon, where he was choir master for the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. Disappointed with the range of hymns available, he made his own collection which he entitled the Yattendon Hymnal and included this hymn, number 69. Music The original tune was a German chorale melody named ''Meine Hoffnung'' (from its German text). This tune was also used as the principal choice for the Methodist Hymns and Psalms book of 1983. In 1930, Dr Thomas Percival (TP) Fielden, director of music at Charterhouse School, sent Bridges' text to a friend, composer Herbert How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twigworth
Twigworth is a small village near Gloucester in the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. The population of Twigworth Parish was 340 people in mid-2014 in 170 households. A planning application for 725 new homes in the parish of Twigworth was approved in December 2017. The place-name 'Twigworth' is first attested in 1220, as 'Twigeworth', and is thought to mean 'enclosure made of twigs'. Parish church Twigworth parish church, consecrated in 1844, is dedicated to St Matthew. The poet and composer Ivor Gurney is buried in the churchyard. Next to Gurney's grave is that of Michael Howells, son of the composer Herbert Howells, who died in 1935 of polio aged nine. Howells later wrote a hymn tune entitled ''Twigworth'' for the hymn "God is love, let heaven adore him", one of two hymn tunes he composed in memory of his son (the other being ''Michael'' — "All my hope on God is founded"). In 2019, following a decision by the Diocese of Gloucester The Diocese of Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psalm 42
Psalm 42 is the 42nd psalm of the Book of Psalms, often known in English by its incipit, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks" (in the King James Version). The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 42 opens the second of the five books (divisions) of Psalms, also known as the "Elohistic Psalter" because the word YHWH is rarely used and God is generally referred to as "Elohim". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and generally in its Latin translations, this psalm is Psalm 41, although the Nova Vulgata translation follows the Hebrew numbering. The psalm is a hymn psalm. It is one of twelve psalms attributed to the sons of Korah. In Latin, its incipit in the Psalterium Gallicanum (the version in the Roman Breviary until the optional introduction of the '' Versio Piana'' in 1945) is ''Quemadmodum desiderat cervus''; b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
"" (literally "A rose has sprung up") is a Christmas carol and Marian hymn of German origin. It is most commonly translated into English as "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming" and is also called "A Spotless Rose" and "Behold a Rose of Judah". The rose in the German text is a symbolic reference to the Virgin Mary. The hymn makes reference to the Old Testament prophecies of Isaiah, which in Christian interpretation foretell the Incarnation of Christ, and to the Tree of Jesse, a traditional symbol of the lineage of Jesus. Because of its prophetic theme, the hymn is popular during the Christian season of Advent. The hymn has its roots in an unknown author before the 17th century. It first appeared in print in 1599 and has since been published with a varying number of verses and in several translations. It is most commonly sung to a melody harmonized by the German composer Michael Praetorius in 1609. The hymn's popularity endures in the 20th and 21st centuries. Meaning The hymn was ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oboe Sonata (Howells)
Herbert Howells completed his Oboe Sonata in 1942. Rejected by its planned dedicatee Léon Goossens, the composition was suppressed and not performed in public until after the composer's death in 1983. History The precise circumstances under which Howells began and composed the sonata for oboe and piano are unknown. The surviving copy of the manuscript indicates that the sonata was completed on 27 August 1942 and that it was intended for Léon Goossens. Goossens, when interviewed about the sonata in 1986 could only recall that he had expressed reservations about the work's structure. Howells had then responded to the effect that he would "have another go at it" and took the manuscript with him. It is not clear what happened next, but it is widely believed that the composers later clarinet sonata resulted from attempts at revising the oboe sonata. The work was rediscovered in 1978 by author Christopher Palmer, at that time working on a biography of Howells. Palmer obtained permis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
