The Choral music in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales has often taken a different trajectory from its European counterparts. In part, this was due to the increased time it took for artistic ideas to permeate to Britain from the various cultural centres of Venice, the Vatican, or even Vienna. It is possibly the historical context…
Herbert Howells, the English composer most noted for his choral works, and friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams once described him as an ‘original who liked to think of himself a kleptomaniac’, due to his use of melodies and themes from the renaissance and folk tunes from around the country (Sadie, 1998: 98). It is perhaps…