List of compositions by Herbert Howells

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

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 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Piano, clavichord
(Some of these are specifically for piano, some are for clavichord but playable on either.)
 * Summer Idyls (1911)
 * 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)