The source of the lists below is Christopher Tinker’s Catalogue of Imogen Holst’s works published on pages 450-460 of Grogan, Christopher, ed. Imogen Holst: a Life in Music (revised ed., 2010). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press.
The first list is Imogen Holst’s original compositions, the second arrangements and adaptations by her of traditional folk tunes and works by other composers.
Tinker’s Catalogue of Imogen Holst’s works published on pages 388-460 of the 2007 1st edition of Imogen Holst: a Life in Music gives further details for each work including first performance, duration and published editions. There is also a list of Imogen’s editions of music by Gustav Holst and vocal and piano scores of music by Benjamin Britten, as well as an index of first lines and titles and index of names.
You can view these pages as a PDF here.
The majority of manuscripts listed on these pages as HF (Holst Foundation) are now in the archive at the Britten-Pears Foundation. For an accurate catalogue of manuscripts of works by Imogen Holst held in the BPF archive search the online archive catalogue by RefNo HOL/2/1/1. For a full list of Imogen’s manuscripts of editions of her father’s works search by Refno HOL/2/1/2.
To read Tinker’s articles on the musical style of Imogen Holst and her work with Britten please see www.christophertinker.com.
To leaf through the Imogen Holst music manuscript Overture ‘Persephone’ click here.
Original compositions
| Genre | Year | Title | Forces (instrumental and vocal) |
Notes |
| Chamber | 1918 | Sonata in D minor | Violin, viola, cello and piano | Opus 1 (only the first four works were numbered) |
| Unaccompanied tune | 1918 | Four English Christmas Carols | Opus 2 | |
| Instrumental | 1918 | Duet | Viola and piano | Opus 3 |
| Instrumental | 1920 | The Masque of the Tempest | Flute, clarinet, triangle and strings | Opus 4 |
| Choral | 1921 | Arrangement: “Resonet in Laudibus” | Unison voices and small orchestra | |
| Choral | 1925 | An Essex Rhapsody | Treble choir and orchestra | |
| Vocal | 1925 | Three songs (words: Walter de la Mare) | Treble voice, two violins and cello | |
| Vocal | 1926 | Two Four-part Rounds | Unaccompanied voices | |
| Vocal | 1926 | “Weathers” (song) (words: Thomas Hardy) | Solo voice and piano | |
| Instrumental | 1926 | Theme and variations | Solo piano | |
| Choral | 1927 | Mass in A minor | SSATB choir | |
| Instrumental | 1927 | Suite in F: “Allegro assai” | Strings | |
| Orchestral | 1927 | Suite: “Moderato” | Small orchestra | |
| Chamber | 1928 | Quintet | Oboe and strings | |
| Instrumental | 1928 | Sonata in G | Violin and Piano | |
| Chamber | 1928 | Phantasy | String quartet | |
| Chamber | 1928 | Suite | Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon | |
| Orchestral | 1929 | Overture ‘Persephone’ | Orchestra | To leaf through the music manuscript Overture ‘Persephone’ click here. |
| Brass band | 1929 | Suite: The Unfortunate Traveller | Brass band | |
| Instrumental | 1930 | Suite: The Unfortunate Traveller | Strings | Arrangement of brass band suite (1929) |
| Choral | 1930 | “What Man is He” | SATB chorus and orchestra | Text from Wisdom IX: 13–17 |
| Ballet | 1930 | Meddling in Magic | Orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1930 | Suite | Unaccompanied viola | |
| Chamber | 1930 | Sonata | Violin and cello | |
| Orchestral | 1932 | Morris Suite | Small orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1934 | Five Short Airs on a Ground | Pipes | |
| Instrumental | 1934 | Five Short Pieces | Solo piano | |
| Instrumental | 1934 | Six Pictures from Finland | Solo piano | |
| Choral | 1934 | Wedding Hymn: “Father in Thine Almighty Hand” (words: Eleanor Spensley) | SATB voices | |
| Orchestral | 1934 | Incidental music: The Song of Solomon | Orchestra | Music for a Hollywood pageant |
| Concertante | 1935 | Concerto for violin and string orchestra | Solo violin and strings | Based on traditional Irish tunes |
| Instrumental | 1935 | Four Easy Pieces | Viola and piano | |
| Orchestral | 1935 | On Westhall Hill | Small orchestra | |
| Choral | 1935 | Carol: “My Bairn, Sleep Softly Now” (Anon.) | Unaccompanied female voices (SSSAA) or solo soprano and pipes | |
| Instrumental | 1936 | Canons | Treble pipes | |
| Vocal | 1936 | “Fly Away Over the Sea” (words: Christina Rossetti) | Two sopranos and piano | |
| Vocal | 1936 | Canon: “Great Art Thou, O Lord” | Five unaccompanied equal voices | |
| Vocal | 1936 | “Lady Daffadowndilly” (words: Christina Rossetti) | Treble voices and piano | |
| Choral | 1936 | “Now Will I Weave White Violets” (words: Meleager of Gadara) | Female voices (SSA) | |
| Choral | 1937 | Incidental music: Nicodemus | Chorus and orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1937 | 12 Songs for Children (piano accompaniments) | Piano | |
| Vocal | 1937 | “Little Thinkest Thou, Poore Flower” (words: John Donne) | Voice and piano | |
| Instrumental | 1939 | “Prelude and Dance” | Piano | |
| Orchestral | 1939 | Eothen Suite | Small orchestra | |
| Choral | 1940 | “The Cherry Tree Carol” | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
| Instrumental | 1940 | Six Shakespeare songs | Three recorders | |
| Choral | 1940 | “A Hymne to Christ” (words: John Donne) | SATB chorus | |
| Chamber | 1941 | Offley Suite | Recorder trio | |
| Instrumental | 1941 | Deddington Suite | Recorder trio | |
| Chamber | 1942 | Serenade | Flute, viola and bassoon | |
| Instrumental | 1943 | Suite | String orchestra | |
| Choral | 1943 | Three Psalms | SSAATB chorus and strings | |
| Instrumental | 1943 | Theme and variations | Solo violin | |
| Concertante | 1944 | Oboe concerto | Oboe and orchestra | |
| Chamber | 1944 | First String Trio | Violin, viola, cello | |
| Choral | 1944 | Five songs (words: Anon., Robert Herrick, John Donne | SSSAA voices | |
| Vocal | 1944 | Four Songs (words: Tottel’s Miscellany) | Soprano and piano | |
| Choral | 1945 | Hierusalem (words: Tottel’s Miscellany ) | Eight-part female chorus | |
| Opera | 1945 | Young Beichan (libretto: Beryl de Zoete) | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | Puppet opera in seven scenes |
| Instrumental | 1945 | Offley Suite | Strings | Arrangement for elementary string classes |
| Instrumental | 1946 | Duet for treble recorders | Two treble recorders | |
| Instrumental | 1946 | Six Canons | Violins | Exercises for violin classes |
| Choral | 1946 | Anthem: “How Manifold are thy Works” | Unspecified chorus | |
| Choral | 1946 | Four Canons for Winsome | Female voices | For Winsome Bartlett, a colleague of IH at Dartington[1] |
| Chamber | 1946 | String Quartet No. 1 | String quartet | |
| Choral | 1947 | Birthday Canon for Winsome: “Open me the gates of righteousness” | SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1947 | Birthday Part-Song for Winsome: “The lopped tree in time may grow again” | SSSAA voices | |
| Vocal | 1948 | Round: “I stand as still as any stone” | Four voices (unspecified) | |
| Chamber | 1949 | String quartet No. 2 | String quartet | |
| Vocal | 1950 | Incidental music, Prometheus (words: Aeschylus) | Voices (unspecified) and viola accompaniment | |
| Choral | 1950 | Six part-songs: Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow | SSA voices and harp (or piano) | |
| Opera | 1951 | Benedick and Beatrice | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | One-act opera based on Shakespeare’s characters |
| Choral | 1955 | Motet: “Lavabo inter innocentes” | SSSAA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1962 | The Fall of the Leaf: three short studies on a 16th-century tune | Solo cello | |
| Choral | 1962 | “The Twelve Kindly Months” (words: Thomas Tusser) | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1962 | Variations on “Loth to Depart” | String quartet and two string orchestras | |
| Instrumental | 1962 | String Trio No. 2 | Violin, viola and cello | |
| Choral | 1964 | “As Laurel Leaves That Cease Not to Be Green” (from Tottel’s Miscellany | SSA voices | |
| Choral | 1964 | “That Lord that Lay in Asse Stall” | SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1965 | Carol: “Make Ye Merry For Him That Is To Come” | SSATB voices | |
| Choral | 1965 | “Not Unto Us O Lord” | Two treble and alto choirs, organ, optional tubular bells | |
| Choral | 1965 | Cantata: The Sun’s Journey | Soprano and alto choirs, small orchestra (or piano) | |
| Orchestral | 1965 | Triannon Suite | Orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1966 | Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards | Three trumpets, horn, two trombones | |
| Instrumental | 1966 | Fanfare for Thaxted | Two trumpets, flute, bells | |
| Instrumental | 1967 | Leiston Suite | Brass quartet | |
| Instrumental | 1968 | Duo | Viola and piano | |
| Choral | 1968 | “Out of Your Sleep arise and Wake” | unaccompanied SSATTB chorus | |
| Instrumental | 1969 | Badingham Chime | Handbells | |
| Brass Band | 1969 | Theme and seven variations: The Glory of the West | Brass band | |
| Orchestral | 1969 | Woodbridge Suite | Orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1970 | Fantasia on Hampshire Folk Tunes | String orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1972 | Iken Fanfare | School wind band | |
| Choral | 1972 | “Hallo My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go” (words: William Cleland) | SSTBB and counter-tenor | |
| Vocal | 1974 | “Farewell to Rod” | Solo voice and continuo | |
| Concertante | 1976 | Joyce’s Divertimento | Viola and orchestra | |
| Orchestral | 1977 | Deben Calendar | Orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1980 | February Welcome | Handbells | |
| Vocal | 1980 | A Greeting | Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and piano | |
| Vocal | 1982 | “Song for a Well-Loved Librarian | Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone | Dedicated to Fred Ferry, librarian to the Britten-Pears Library[3] |
| Chamber | 1982 | String Quintet | String quintet: two violins, viola, two cellos | |
| Vocal | 1984 | Homage to William Morris | Bass voice and string bass | |
| Instrumental | 1984 | Recorder sextet | Sopranino, two descants, two trebles and tenor recorders | |
| Instrumental | 1984 | Concerto for recorder and string orchestra | Solo recorder and string orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1984 | Duet | Violin and cello |
Arrangements
| Genre | Year | Title | Forces (instrumental and vocal) |
Notes |
| Instrumental | 1932 | First Book of Tunes for the Pipes | Pipes | Collected and arranged |
| Instrumental | 1933 | Selected 18th Century Dances | Piano | Collected and arranged |
| Instrumental | 1933 | Second Book of Tunes for the Pipes | Pipes | Collected and arranged |
| Instrumental | 1933 | Two Scottish Airs | Cello and piano | |
| Vocal | 1934 | Four Oxfordshire Folk Songs | Two sopranos and piano | |
| Vocal | 1934 | Four Somerset Folk Songs | Two sopranos and alto | |
| Orchestral | 1934 | Love in a Mist or The Blue-Haired Stranger | Orchestra | Arranged from music by Scarlatti |
| Choral | 1934 | Folk song: “Nowell and Nowell” | Mixed voices | |
| Vocal | 1934 | Six Scottish Folk Songs | Voice, pipes piano | |
| Orchestral | 1934 | Traditional Country Dances | Orchestra | Arranged for the Cecil Sharp House Orchestra and others |
| Instrumental | 1935 | Four Folk Tunes from Hampshire | Unison violins and piano | |
| Orchestral | 1935 | “Intermezzo” from Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E flat | Orchestra | Orchestral arrangement |
| Choral | 1935 | Folk song: “The Virgin Unspotted” | Unaccompanied female voices (SSA) | |
| Instrumental | 1936 | Twelve Old English Dance Airs | Pipes | Arrangements, from Playford’s English Dancing Master |
| Choral | 1936 | “Wassail Song” | Unaccompanied men’s chorus | Arranged from Gustav Holst’s setting for mixed voices |
| Instrumental | 1937 | Six Old English Dances | Piano | Arrangements, from Playford’s English Dancing Master |
| Choral | 1937 | Folk song: “A Sweet Country Life” | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1937 | Folk song from Hampshire: “The Cobbler” | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1937 | “A Cornish Wassail Song” | Unaccompanied SATB voices | |
| Brass band | 1937 | Coronation Country Dances | Brass band | Co-arrangement with Gordon Jacob |
| Instrumental | 1937 | The Rival Sisters” | Strings, ad lib woodwind and percussion | Arrangements of Purcell’s suite for small orchestra |
| Vocal | 1938 | Pelham Humphrey: Three Songs (Pelham Humphrey) | Voice and piano | |
| Vocal | 1938 | Ten Appalachian Folk Songs | Voice and piano | |
| Choral | 1940 | Six Traditional Carols (first set) | SSA voices | Completed between 1940 and 1946 |
| Vocal | 1940 | Pastoral scene: Nymphs and Shepherds | SSA voices, strings, optional recorders | Based on music by Purcell |
| Choral | 1940 | Dorset folk carol: “Come All You Worthy People” | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1940 | Pelham Humphrey: Five airs | Recorder trio | |
| Vocal | 1941 | Pelham Humphrey: Song “Nature’s Homily” | Baritone and piano | |
| Instrumental | 1942 | Handel’s “As When the Dove” | Continuo | |
| Instrumental | 1942 | A Bach Book for the Treble Recorder | Treble recorder | Selected and edited by IH |
| Vocal | 1942 | Three Carols from Other Lands | Unspecified | |
| Choral | 1943 | “Of a Rosemary Branch Sent” | SATB voices with strings | |
| Choral | 1943 | Shropshire folk carol: “All Under the Leaves” | SSA voices | Also known as “The Seven Virgins” |
| Choral | 1943 | Cornish folk-carol: “Cherry, Holly and Ivy” | SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1945 | Bach’s Cantata No. 79: “God the Lord is Son and Shield” | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1945 | Purcell’s The Tempest | Piano, flute, descant recorder, oboe, clarinet, strings | |
| Orchestral | 1945 | Three Somerset Folk Songs | Small orchestra | |
| Instrumental | 1947 | British Folk Songs | Solo piano | |
| Choral | 1948 | Six Traditional Carols (Second set) | SSA voices | |
| Choral | 1949 | Gustav Holst: “Lullay my Liking” | SSA voices with solo soprano | |
| Choral | 1949 | Six Christmas Carols (Third set) | SSA and SSAA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1950 | Purcell: Four songs | Recorder ensemble | |
| Choral | 1950 | “Greensleeves” | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1950 | Purcell: Seventeen songs | Piano, two violins, cello ad lib | |
| Choral | 1950 | Folk song: “I Must Live All Alone” | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1951 | Ten Indian Folk Tunes from the Punjab | Descant recorder | Transcribed by IH and Prabhakar Chinchore |
| Choral | 1952 | Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato | Equal voices with ad lib soprano and alto soli | |
| Instrumental | 1952 | “Sellenger’s Round” | Strings | Arrangement of Byrd setting |
| Vocal | 1953 | Daniel Purcell: “By What I’ve Seen I am Undone” | Voice and piano | |
| Vocal | 1953 | Henry Carey: Four Songs | Voice and piano | |
| Orchestral | 1954 | Britten: “March from the Courtly Dances sequence in Gloriana | Orchestra | Orchestral arrangement |
| Vocal | 1954 | Britten: Second Lute Song of Earl of Essex, from Gloriana | Voice and piano | |
| Choral | 1955 | Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana | Tenor solo and SATB chorus | |
| Instrumental | 1955 | Bach: A Christmas Canon | Recorder quartet | |
| Vocal | 1955 | Handel: “For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name” | Voice and piano | |
| Choral | 1955 | Folk song: “O Can Ye Sew Cushions” | SSA voices and piano | From Britten’s Folk Song arrangements Vol. 1 |
| Choral | 1955 | Six Scottish Songs | SSA voices unaccompanied | |
| Choral | 1955 | Traditional Songs of Scotland | SSA voices unaccompanied | |
| Vocal | 1955 | Arne: “Under the Greenwood Tree” | Voice and piano | |
| Vocal | 1956 | Sea shanty: “Sally Brown” | Voices and recorders | |
| Opera | 1956 | Venus and Adonis | Unspecified | From the original by John Blow: prepared for the 1956 Aldeburgh Festival |
| Choral | 1957 | “Singing for Pleasure” | Female voices | Song collection |
| Choral | 1958 | Six Traditional Carols (Fourth Set) | Unaccompanied SSA and SSSA voices | |
| Choral | 1959 | “A Jubilee Book of English Folk Songs” | Unison voices and piano | Song collection |
| Choral | 1959 | Ten songs from John Wilson’s Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads (1659) | SSA voices | |
| Instrumental | 1960 | Fifty Bach tunes | Recorder | Arranged from originals |
| Instrumental | 1960 | Ten Bach tunes | Recorder | Arranged from originals |
| Choral | 1960 | A Yacre of Land: 16 folksongs from collection of Ralph Vaughan Williams | Unison voices and piano, or unaccompanied voices | Co-arranged by IH and Ursula Vaughan Williams |
| Vocal | 1961 | Nineteen Songs from Folk Songs of Europe, ed. Maud Karpeles | Voice and piano accompaniment | |
| Choral | 1961 | Tunes from Kentucky | Equal voices and junior orchestra | |
| Choral | 1962 | Heinrich Schütz: The Passion According to St John | Soloists and unaccompanied chorus | Co-edited and arranged by IH and Peter Pears |
| Choral | 1964 | Scottish Traditional Song: “A Wee Bird Cam’ to Our Ha’Door” | SATB voices | |
| Choral | 1965 | The Passion According to St Luke | Unaccompanied voices | Edited and arranged for performance from 15thC manuscripts |
| Choral | 1965 | Heinrich Schütz: The Passion According to St Matthew | Soloists and unaccompanied chorus | Co-edited and translated by IH and Peter Pears |
| Vocal | 1966 | Thomas Tudway: “I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes” | Soprano and continuo | |
| Choral | 1966 | George Kirbye: “O Jesu, Look” | SSATB voices | |
| Opera | 1967 | Purcell: The Faerie Queen (shortened version) | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | Edited and prepared for concert performance by IH, Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten |
| Choral | 1967 | Bach: The Passion According to St John | Soloists, chorus and orchestra | Edited by Benjamin Britten and IH; English translation by Peter Pears |
| Orchestral | 1967 | Lully: Suite from Persée | Orchestra | Edited from original by IH and Emanuel Hurwitz |
| Vocal | 1967 | Three Carol Arrangements | Three equal unaccompanied voices | |
| Vocal | 1967 | Twenty Traditional British Folk Songs | unaccompanied voices in part song | |
| Choral | 1968 | Purcell: Wedding anthem, “How Blest Are They” | Mixed voices, soprano and bass soli | Arranged by IH and Philip Ledger |
| Choral | 1969 | Purcell: “Remember Not, O Lord” | Male chorus | |
| Instrumental | 1970 | William Byrd: “Browning” | Violin, two violas, two cellos | |
| Choral | 1970 | English folk song: “Gypsy Davy” | Unaccompanied chorus | Arranged as a ballad |
| Vocal | 1978 | Pelham Humphrey and John Blow: “A Dialogue Between Two Penitents” | Two tenors and continuo | |
| Instrumental | 1981 | Seventeenth-century traditional English dance: “About Ship” | Piano duet | |
| Instrumental | 1983 | Seven tunes by Gustav Holst | piano | Arrangement for elementary piano |
Original compositions
Chamber
Sonata in D minor, Opus 1 for violin, viola, cello and piano (1918)
Quintet for oboe and strings (1928)
Phantasy, String quartet (1928)
Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon (1928)
Sonata for violin and cello (1930)
Offley Suite for recorder trio (1941)
Serenade for flute, viola and bassoon (1942)
First String Trio for violin, viola, cello (1944)
String Quartet No.1 (1946)
String quartet No.2 (1949)
String Quintet (1982)
Instrumental
Duet for viola and piano , Opus 3 (1918)
The Masque of the Tempest for flute, clarinet, triangle and strings, Opus 4 (1920)
Theme and variations for solo piano (1926)
Suite in F: “Allegro assai” for strings (1927)
Sonata in G for violin and piano (1928)
Suite: The Unfortunate Traveller for Strings (1930)
Suite for unaccompanied viola (1930)
Five Short Airs on a Ground for pipes (1934)
Five Short Pieces for solo piano (1934)
Six Pictures from Finland for solo piano (1934)
Four Easy Pieces for viola and piano (1935)
Canons for treble pipes (1936)
12 Songs for Children (piano accompaniments) for piano (1937)
“Prelude and Dance” for piano (1939)
Six Shakespeare songs for three recorders (1940)
Deddington Suite for recorder trio (1941)
Suite for string orchestra (1943)
Theme and variations for solo violin (1943)
Offley Suite for strings (1945)
Duet for treble recorders (1946)
Six Canons for violins (1946)
The Fall of the Leaf: three short studies on a 16th-century tune for solo cello (1962)
Variations on “Loth to Depart” for string quartet and two string orchestras (1962)
String Trio No.2 for violin, viola and cello (1962)
Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards for three trumpets, horn, two trombones (1966)
Fanfare for Thaxted for two trumpets, flute and bells (1966)
Leiston Suite for brass quartet (1967)
Duo for viola and piano (1968)
Badingham Chime for Handbells (1969)
Fantasia on Hampshire Folk Tunes for string orchestra (1970)
Iken Fanfare for school wind band (1972)
February Welcome for handbells (1980)
Recorder sextet for sopranino, two descants, two trebles and tenor recorders (1984)
Concerto for recorder and string orchestra (1984)
Duet for violin and cello (1984)
Orchestral
Suite: “Moderato” (1927)
Overture: Persephone (1929)
Morris Suite (1932)
Incidental music: The Song of Solomon (1934)
On Westhall Hill (1935)
Eothen Suite (1939)
Triannon Suite (1965)
Woodbridge Suite (1969)
Deben Calendar (1977)
Brass band
Suite: The Unfortunate Traveller (1929)
Theme and seven variations: The Glory of the West (1969)
Ballet
Meddling in Magic for orchestra (1930)
Concertante
Concerto for violin and string orchestra. Based on traditional Irish tunes (1935)
Oboe concerto (1944)
Joyce’s Divertimento for viola and orchestra (1976)
Opera
Young Beichan (libretto: Beryl de Zoete). A puppet opera in seven scenes for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1945)
Benedick and Beatrice. One-act opera based on Shakespeare’s characters for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1951)
Choral
Arrangement: “Resonet in Laudibus” for unison voices and small orchestra (1921)
An Essex Rhapsody for treble choir and orchestra (1925)
Mass in A minor for SSATB choir (1927)
“What Man is He” (Text: Wisdom IX: 13–17) for SATB chorus and orchestra (1930)
Wedding Hymn: “Father in Thine Almighty Hand” (words: Eleanor Spensley) for SATB voices (1934)
Carol: “My Bairn, Sleep Softly Now” (Anon.) for unaccompanied female voices (SSSAA) or solo soprano and pipes (1935)
“Now Will I Weave White Violets” (words: Meleager of Gadara) for female voices (SSA) (1936)
Incidental music: Nicodemus for chorus and orchestra (1937)
“The Cherry Tree Carol” for unaccompanied SATB voices (1940)
“A Hymne to Christ” (words: John Donne) for SATB chorus (1940)
Three Psalms for SSAATB chorus and strings (1943)
Five songs (words: Anon., Robert Herrick, John Donne) for SSSAA voices (1944)
Hierusalem (words: Tottel’s Miscellany ) for eight-part female chorus (1945)
Anthem: “How Manifold are thy Works” for unspecified chorus (1946)
Four Canons for Winsome for female voices (1946)
Birthday Canon for Winsome: “Open me the gates of righteousness” for SATB voices (1947)
Birthday Part-Song for Winsome: “The lopped tree in time may grow again” for SSSAA voices (1947)
Six part-songs: Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow for SSA voices and harp/piano (1950)
Motet: “Lavabo inter innocentes” for SSSAA voices (1955)
“The Twelve Kindly Months” (words: Thomas Tusser) for SSA voices (1962)
“As Laurel Leaves That Cease Not to Be Green” (from Tottel’s Miscellany) for SSA voices (1964)
“That Lord that Lay in Asse Stall” for SATB voices (1964)
Carol: “Make Ye Merry For Him That Is To Come” for SSATB voices (1965)
“Not Unto Us O Lord” for two treble and alto choirs, organ, optional tubular bells (1965)
Cantata: The Sun’s Journey for soprano and alto choirs, small orchestra/piano (1965)
“Out of Your Sleep arise and Wake” for unaccompanied SSATTB chorus (1968)
“Hallo My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go” (words: William Cleland) for SSTBB and counter-tenor (1972)
Vocal
Three songs (words: Walter de la Mare) for treble voice, two violins and cello (1925)
Two Four-part Rounds for unaccompanied voices (1926)
“Weathers” (words: Thomas Hardy) for solo voice and piano (1926)
“Fly Away Over the Sea” (words: Christina Rossetti) for two sopranos and piano (1936)
Canon: “Great Art Thou, O Lord” for five unaccompanied equal voices (1936)
“Lady Daffadowndilly” (words: Christina Rossetti) for treble voices and piano (1936)
“Little Thinkest Thou, Poore Flower” (words: John Donne) for voice and piano (1937)
Four Songs (words: Tottel’s Miscellany) for soprano and piano (1944)
Round: “I stand as still as any stone” for four voices (unspecified) (1948)
Incidental music, Prometheus (words: Aeschylus) for voices (unspecified) and viola accompaniment (1950)
“Farewell to Rod” for solo voice and continuo (1974)
A Greeting for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and piano (1980)
“Song for a Well-Loved Librarian” for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone (1982)
Homage to William Morris for bass voice and string bass (1984)
Unaccompanied tune
Four English Christmas Carols, Opus 2 (1918)
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