Early works

(Some of these are incomplete; the manuscripts of some of them are also lost).

c.1926/7: Bolsters - a ballet; The House that Jack Built: Cheerly Men: Yang-Tsi-Kiang; Three Jovial Huntsmen (all arrangements for piano trio)

c.1927: The Undying Fire (H.G. Wells), for baritone, chorus and orchestra

1927-9: The Village Opera (ballad opera in 3 acts with text and music by composer)

c.1928 String Quartet in F minor

1928-30 Concerto in D for 2 flutes, oboe, 4 horns and strings

1928 String Quartet No. 2 in F major (revised 1930) Songs for voice and piano, on texts by Charlotte Mary Mew(Sea Love; Afternoon tea; Arracombe Wood) Sonata in C minor

1929 Variations for Dudley [Parvin], for piano Ten Variations on a Swiss folksong as harmonized by Beethoven Three Songs (Charlotte Mew) for voice and piano (Sea Love; Afternoon Tea; Arracombe Fair)

1930 Jockey to the Fair: Variations for piano Psalm in C - The Gateway , for chorus and small orchestra (text by Christopher Fry) Incidental music to James Elroy's Flecker's Don Juan; Sonata in E minor, for violin and piano

c.1930/1 Symphonic Movement for full orchestra

1932 String Trio in B flat

1933/34 Symphony No. 1 in B flat (revised in 1934)

1934 Robin Hood (ballad opera, dialogue by David Ayerst, lyrics by Ruth Pennyman)

c.1935 Miners, for chorus and piano (text by Judy Wogan)

1937 A Song of Liberty, for chorus and orchestra (text from Wiilliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

1938 Robert of Sicily (opera for children, text by Christopher Fry, adapted from Robert Downing, music arranged by the composer for children's choirs, trumpet, clarinet, cello, piano and bell)

1939 Seven at One Stroke (play for children, text by Christopher Fry,music arranged by the composer for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, piano)