# 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 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)
* 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)

## Keyboard works
### 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)