Composer: Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Garland for de la Mare

no. 1. Wanderers (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. The Lady Caroline (Lovelocks) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Before Dawn (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. The old stone house (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. The three cherry trees (Siciliana) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 6. The old soldier (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 7. The song of the secret (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 8. Some one (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 9. A queer story (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 10. Andy Battle (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 11. The old house (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 12. King David (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 13. Before Dawn (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Five songs for low voice

no. ?. The sorrows of love (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
no. ?. The twilight people (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)

Hymnus Paradisi

no. 1. Preludio
no. 2. Requiem aeternam (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. The Lord is my shepherd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE LAT
no. 4. Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] DUT ENG GER FRE
no. 5. I heard a voice from heaven (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. Holy is the true light (Text: George Herbert Palmer after Bible or other Sacred Texts)

In Green Ways , op. 43

no. ?. The goat paths (Text: James Stephens)
no. 1. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN GER
no. 3. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)
no. 4. Wanderer's night song (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT SPA RUS ITA FRE FIN POL
no. 5. On the Merry First of May (Text: H. Burkitt Parker)

Kikirikee [multi-composer] [collection]

no. ?. All the bells were ringing (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Angels at the foot (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A diamond or a coal? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Eight o'clock, the postman's knock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. An emerald is as green as grass (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Hear what the mournful linnets say (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Heartsease in my garden bed (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Hopping frog (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. I am a King (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. I know a baby (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If a mouse could fly (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If all were rain (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If I were a Queen (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If the sun could tell us half (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Lie a-bed, sleepy head (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A linnet in a gilded cage (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Love me, -- I love you (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Margaret has a milking-pail (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Mother shake the cherry-tree (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. O wind, why do you never rest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Oh, fair to see (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. When a mounting skylark sings (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Pussy has a whiskered face (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Rushes in a watery place (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. The days are clear (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. O wind, where have you been (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. There's snow on the fields (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Three plum buns (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Twist me a crown of wind-flowers (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Wee wee husband (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. When the cows come home (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Your brother has a falcon (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Peacock Pie , op. 33

no. 1. Tired Tim (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Alas, alack! (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Mrs. MacQueen (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. The dunce (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. Full moon (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 6. Miss T. (Text: Walter de la Mare)

The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine)

no. 1. Tilly (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 3. A flower given to my daughter (Text: James Joyce) ITA FRE
no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 5. Tutto è sciolto (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 6. On the beach at Fontana (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 7. Simples (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 8. Flood (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 9. Nightpiece (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 10. Alone (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 13. A Prayer (Text: James Joyce) FRE

Three Rondeaux , op. 11

no. ?. A rondel of rest (Text: Arthur Symons)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A Madrigal, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: Austin Dobson)
A queer story (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
A rondel of rest, op. 11 (in Three Rondeaux) (Text: Arthur Symons)
Alas, alack!, op. 33 no. 2 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Andy Battle (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Before Dawn (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Before Dawn (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Bunches of grapes (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Come sing and dance
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Flood (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Full moon, op. 33 no. 5 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Gavotte (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
Girl's song, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 4 (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Goddess of Night (Text: Frederick William Harvey)
Holy is the true light (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: George Herbert Palmer after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I heard a voice from heaven (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
King David (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Lost love (Text: Clifford Bax after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
Merry Margaret, op. 43 no. 3 (in In Green Ways) (Text: John Skelton)
Miss T., op. 33 no. 6 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Mother shake the cherry-tree (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Mrs. MacQueen, op. 33 no. 3 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
My eyes for beauty pine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
O my deir hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther)
Old Meg (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Old Skinflint (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
On the Merry First of May, op. 43 no. 5 (in In Green Ways) (Text: H. Burkitt Parker)
Pink almond (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]
Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
Preludio (in Hymnus Paradisi)
Requiem aeternam (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Salve Regina DUT ENG GER FRE
Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] DUT ENG GER FRE (in Hymnus Paradisi)
Some one (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The days are clear (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The dunce, op. 33 no. 4 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The goat paths, op. 43 no. ? (in In Green Ways) (Text: James Stephens)
The Lady Caroline (Lovelocks) (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
The Lord is my shepherd (in Hymnus Paradisi) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE LAT
The mugger's song (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
The old house (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The old soldier (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The old stone house (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The pilgrim, op. 11 no. 2 (Text: William Blake)
The scribe (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The shepherd, op. 11 no. 1 (Text: William Blake)
The song of the secret (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The sorrows of love (in Five songs for low voice) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
The three cherry trees (Siciliana) (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The twilight people (in Five songs for low voice) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
The widow bird, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 3 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
There was a maiden, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 1 (Text: William Leonard Courtney)
Tired Tim, op. 33 no. 1 (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Under the greenwood tree, op. 43 no. 1 (in In Green Ways) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN GER
Wanderers (in A Garland for de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Wanderer's night song, op. 43 no. 4 (in In Green Ways) (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT SPA RUS ITA FRE FIN POL
When the dew is falling (Text: William Sharp)

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