Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Howells

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Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice, op. 2

no. 1. The twilight people (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
no. 2. The Devotee (Text: Thomas Goodwin Keohler) [x]
no. 3. The Waves of Breffny (Text: Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth)
no. 4. The Sorrow of Love (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
no. 5. The Call (Text: George Roberts) [x]

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 , as Walter Ramal)
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) GER SPA
no. 13. Before Dawn (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Four French Chansons, op. 29

no. 1. Sainte Catherine (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 1. Saint Catherine (Text: Edward Agate after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
no. 2. Le marquis de Maine [x]
no. 3. Angele au couvent [x]
no. 4. Le petit couturier [x]

Hymnus Paradisi

no. 1. Preludio
no. 2. Requiem aeternam (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
no. 3. The Lord is my shepherd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
no. 4. Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE ENG FIN CAT DUT GER
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. 1. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
no. 2. The goat paths (Text: James Stephens)
no. 3. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)
no. 4. Wanderer's night song (Text: Herbert Norman Howells after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) AFR CAT CHI CZE DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GRE HUN IRI ITA ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
no. 5. On the Merry First of May (Text: H. Burkitt Parker; Claude Lindsay Clifford Aveling)

Kikirikee [multi-composer]

All the bells were ringing, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Angels at the foot, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Dancing on the hill-tops, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A diamond or a coal?, composed by Henry George Ley (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
An emerald is as green as grass, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Hear what the mournful linnets say, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Heartsease in my garden bed, composed by R. T. White (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Hopping frog, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
I am a King, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
I know a baby, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If a mouse could fly, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If all were rain, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If I were a Queen, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
If the sun could tell us half, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Lie a-bed, sleepy head, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A linnet in a gilded cage, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Love me, -- I love you, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Margaret has a milking-pail, composed by George Dyson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Mother shake the cherry-tree, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
O wind, why do you never rest, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Oh, fair to see, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
When a mounting skylark sings, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Pussy has a whiskered face, composed by Hubert S. Middleton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Rushes in a watery place, composed by Alan Palmer (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The days are clear, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
O wind, where have you been, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
There's snow on the fields, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Three plum buns, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Twist me a crown of wind-flowers, composed by Basil Harwood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Wee wee husband, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
When the cows come home, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Your brother has a falcon, composed by Dorothy Wauchope Stewart (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) FRE

no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) CHI FRE GER
no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE

Three Rondeaux, op. 12

no. 1. Roses (Text: Charles Camp Tarelli) [x]
no. 2. A Roundel of Rest (Text: Arthur Symons)
no. 3. Her scuttle hatt [x]

Three Songs

no. 2. An Old Man's Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
no. 3. Up on their brooms (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Whin: Six Songs, op. 34

no. 1. Old Skinflint (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 2. Pity Me (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 3. Fallowfield Fell (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson) [x]
no. 4. Stow-on-the-Wold (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 5. Blaweary (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
no. 6. The mugger's song (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

Andy Battle (Text: Walter De la Mare)
An Old Man's Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
A queer story (Text: Walter De la Mare)
A spotless Rose (Text: Catherine Winkworth after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRI GER
Before Dawn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Before Dawn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Bunches of grapes (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Come sing and dance (Text: Anonymous)
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Flood (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
Gavotte (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir)
Goddess of Night (Text: Frederick William Harvey)
Holy is the true light (Text: George Herbert Palmer after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
I heard a voice from heaven (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
King David (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
Lost love (Text: Clifford Bax after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
Mother shake the cherry-tree (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
My eyes for beauty pine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Old Meg (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
O men from the fields (Text: Padraic Colum)
O my deir hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
Pink almond (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]
Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
Preludio
Requiem aeternam (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
Salve Regina (Text: Anonymous) DUT ENG FRE FRE GER GER
Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FIN DUT GER FRE ENG
Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The days are clear (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The Lady Caroline (Lovelocks) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
The Lord is my shepherd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT FRE FRE GER GER GER LAT
The old house (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The old soldier (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The old stone house (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The scribe (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The song of the secret (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The three cherry trees (Siciliana) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Up on their brooms (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Wanderers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
When the dew is falling (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)

op. 2. A Cycle of Five Songs for Low Voice
op. 11.
op. 12. Three Rondeaux
op. 22. Four Songs
op. 29. Four French Chansons
op. 33. Peacock Pie
op. 34. Whin: Six Songs
op. 43. In Green Ways

Last update: 2025-04-26 04:56:44