The Music of Herbert Howells

By David Nicholas Maw and Phillip Cooke

The book's coverage is wide-ranging, addressing all aspects of the composer's prolific output and probing many of the issues that it raises. The essays are gathered in five sections: Howells the Stylist, Howells the Vocal Composer, Howells the Instrumental Composer, Howells the Modern and Howells in Mourning. The composer that emerges from these studies is a complex figure: technically fluent but prone to revision and self-doubt; innovative but also conservative; a composer with an improvisational sense of flow who had a firm grasp of musical form; an exponent of British musical style who owed as much to continental influence as to his national heritage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838796
• ISBN13: 9781843838791
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"