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	Date
Arrangements
Fire Dance (arr. Of work by Sinding)	1921
Set of Tunes and Dances (Purcell)	1921
Das alte jahr vergangen is (Bach)	1932
Three Bach Chorales from St John Passion	1960
Ballets
Rout (a ballet in one scene)	1920?
Melee Fantastique	1921
Narcissus and Echo	1931
Checkmate	1937
Miracle of the Gorbals	1944
Adam Zero	1946
Lady of Shallot, The	1958
Diversions (based on Music for Strings)	1961?
Frontier (based on music from Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet)	1969?
Royal Offering, A (based on Colour Symphony)	1977
Brass/Military Band
Kenilworth	1936
First Guards	1956
Call to Adventure	1962
Belmont Variations, The	1963
Linburn Air	1965
Salute to Lehigh University	1968
Chamber
Trio for piano, clarinet and cello	1909
Quartet for piano, clarinet, cello and timpani	1910??
String Quartet in A major	1914
Piano Quartet in A minor	1915
Fugue for String Quartet	1916
Piano Quintet	1919
Conversations	1920
String Quartet (1923/4)	1923
Allegro (from incomplete string quartet)	1927
Quintet for oboe and strings	1927
Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet	1932
String Quartet No.1 Bb major	1941
String Quartet No.2	1950
Toast to the Royal Household	1961
Play a penta	1971
Prelude for Brass, Percussion, Piccolo and Double Bassoon	1974?
Choral
When wilt thou save thy people?	1943??
Aubade for Coronation Morning	1953
Seek the Lord	1956
Birthday songs for a Royal child	1959
Stand up and bless the Lord	1960
Cradle Song for a newborn child	1963
O give thanks unto the Lord	1965
He is the Way	1967
River Music	1967
Sweet Day, so cool	1967
Three Songs for Girls and Boys	1967
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?	1968
One, two, buckle my shoe	1968
Prayer to the infant Jesus, A	1968
Christ is Alive! Let Christians sing	1970
Ode for Sir William Walton	1972
Prayer of St Francis of Assisi	1972
Put thou thy trust in the Lord	1972
Mar Portugues	1973
Shield of Faith	1974
Sing, Mortals	1974
Chorus and Orchestra
Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks'	1928
Morning Heroes	1930
Songs of Welcome	1954
Beatitudes, The	1961
Mary of Magdala	1962
Golden Cantata	1963
God save the Queen	1969
World is charges with the Grandeur of God, The	1969
Two Ballads	1971
Fanfare
Fanfare for a Political Address	1921
Fanfare for Heroes	1930
Dominion Greetings	1935
Three Jubilant and Three Solemn Fanfares	1935/1943
Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion	1938
Birthday Fanfare for Henry Wood	1944
Peace Fanfare for Children	1944
Salute to Painting, A	1953
Salute to the RAF, A	1956
Service of the Order of Bath	1956
Fanfare preceding the National Anthem	1960
Let the People Sing Two Fanfares	1960
Royal Fanfares and Interludes	1960
Salute to the Royal Society, a	1960
Greetings to a City	1961
Wedding of Princess Margaret, Music for	1961?
Gala Fanfare	1962
High Sheriff's Fanfare	1963
Fanfare, Homage to Shakespeare	1964
Fanfare for the Commonwealth Arts Festival	1965
Right of the Line, The	1965/1982 poth.
Fanfare: Prelude for Orchestra ‘Macclesfield’	1966
Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London	1967
Prince of Wales Investiture Music	1969
Birthday Greetings to the Croydon Symphony Orchestra	1971
Fanfare for a Coming of Age	1973
Fanfare for the National Fund for Crippling Diseases	1973
Wedding of Princess Anne, Music for	1973
Lancaster-prelude	1974
Film Music
Things to Come	1934
Conquest of the Air	1937
Caesar and Cleopatra	1944
Men of Two Worlds	1945
Presense au combat	1945
Christopher Columbus	1949
War in the Air	1954
Welcome the Queen	1954
Seven Waves Away	1956
Hymns
Pen Selwood – Hymn Tune	1967?
Santa Barbara – Hymn Tune	1967??
Mortlake – Hymn Tune	1971?
Incidental Music
As You Like It	1919
King Solomon	1924
Summer Day's Dream - violin and oboe	1949
Instrumental
Intermezzo for Viola and Piano	1914?
Violin Sonata (incomplete)	1914
Two Pieces for Clarinet	1916
Andante Tranquillo e Legato	1926??
Viola sonata	1933
Enid’s Blast	1968
Music for a Prince	1970
Opera
Olympians, The	1948
Beggar's Opera, The	1952
Tobias and the Angel	1960
Orchestral
Melee Fantastique (revision)	1921/1937/1965
Two Studies	1920
Concerto for Piano, Strings Tenor and Percussion	1920/1923
Colour Symphony, A	1921/1932
Pyonepsion (last movement of A Colour Symphony)	1922
Bliss: One Step	1923
Twone, the house of Felicity	1923
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra	1924
Polonaise	1925
Hymn to Apollo	1926/1965
Introduction and Allegro	1926/1937
Music for Strings	1935
Concerto for Piano in Bb major	1938
March, The Phoenix - homage to France	1944
Memorial Concert	1946
Theme and Cadenza (from Memorial Concert)	1946
Processional	1953
Birthday Greeting for Her Majesty, A	1955
Meditation on a Theme by John Blow	1955
Violin Concerto	1955
Edinburgh Overture	1956
Discourse for Orchestra	1957/1965
Ceremonial Prelude	1965
March in homage of a great man	1965
Cello Concerto	1970
Metamorphic Variations	1972
Two Contrasts for String Orchestra	1972
Organ
Praeludium	1971
Piano
May Zeeh	1910
Suite (1912)	1910?
Intermezzo	1912
Valse Fantastiques	1913
Rout (two piano arrangement)	1920?
Bliss: One Step	1923
Masks	1924
Suite (1925)	1925
Toccata	1925
Two Interludes	1925
Rout Trot, The	1927
Study	1927
Karen's Piece	1940/1941
Piano Sonata	1952
Miniature Scherzo	1969
Fun and Games (three hands/two pianos)	1970
Triptych	1970
Wedding Suite, A	1974
Music for Radio
Your question answered	1944
Heritage of Britain	1950
Music for Television
ABC Television Signature and Interval Music	1956
An Age of Kings	1960
Royal Palace Music	1966
Spirit of the Age	1975
Voice and Ensemble
Madam Noy	1918
Rhapsody	1919
Rout	1920
Two Nursery Rhymes	1920
Tempest, The	1921
Women of Yu’eh	1923
Four Songs	1927
Serenade for Baritone and Orchestra	1929
Two Love Songs (from the Serenade)	1929
Enchantress, The	1951
Elegiac Sonnet	1954
Knot of Riddles, A	1963
Two Ballads	1971
Four songs	1973
Voice and Piano
Tis time I think by Wenlock Town	1914
Hammers, The	1915
Tramps, The	1916
La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi)	1919
Three Romantic Songs	1921
Three Songs	1923/1972
Ballad of the Four Seasons, The	1923
Three Jolly Gentlemen	1923
When I was one and twenty	1923
Fallow deer at the lonely house, The	1924
At the Window	1925
Rich or Poor	1925
Child's prayer A	1926
Simples	1932
Seven American Poems	1940
Two American Poems	1940
Auvergnat	1943
Pack clouds away (incomplete)	1960s
Song of a man who has come through (incomplete)	1960s
Angels of the Mind	1969
Sailing or Flying	1970
Tulips	1970
Unknown
Elizabethan Suite	??
March and Valse des Fleurs (arr. Tchaikovsky)	1910??
Valses Melancoliques, Deuxième Preludes; Valse-Phantasie	1913??
The Festival of Flora (arr. Of Henry Purcell)	1927??
Theme from Processional Interlude	1969?
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