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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.

Five songs for low voice

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

In Green Ways, op. 43

no. 1. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. ?. The goat paths (Text: James Stephens)

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

A Madrigal, op. 22 (Four Songs) no. 2 (Text: (Henry) Austin Dobson)
A rondel of rest, op. 11 (Text: Arthur Symons)
Alas, alack! (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Bunches of grapes (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Eight o'clock, the postman's knock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Flood (Text: James Joyce)
Full moon (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)
King David (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Lost love (Text: Clifford Bax after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * ENG
Miss T. (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Mother shake the cherry-tree (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Mrs. MacQueen (Text: Walter de la Mare)
My eyes for beauty pine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
O my deir hert (Text: The brothers Wedderburn (James, John and Robert) after Martin Luther) ENG
Old Meg (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Old Skinflint (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Pink almond (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]*
Salve Regina GER FRE
The days are clear (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The dunce (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The goat paths, op. 43 no. ? (in In Green Ways) (Text: James Stephens)
The mugger's song (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
The scribe (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The sorrows of love (in Five songs for low voice) (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan) [x]
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 (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Under the greenwood tree, op. 43 no. 1 (in In Green Ways) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.