The Morning Of The World (1986)

Cantata based on the music of Bali and its creation myth. For narrator, unison voices, tuned and untuned classroom percussion.

Trench Blues (1976)

Unison voices, recorders, classroom tuned and untuned percussion, guitar and piano.

Around Christmas (1964)

A Bohemian Carol (voices and piano) Patapan (voices, recorders, chime bars, percussion, piano) A Babe Is Born (unison voices and piano) Bells (unison voices and piano) Rise Up, Shepherd (solo voice and piano)

Le Marteau Cent Metres (1960)

An Olympic year tribute written under the pseudonym of Karlheinz Biens. A setting of the news in Swahili, accompanied by flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, times, xylophone, glockenspiel, percussion and viola. A tongue-in-cheek piece, performed totally seriously by Birmingham University students to their bemused Cambridge counterparts at a concert in the Music School, Cambridge.

Four Yeats Songs (1966/67)

The Sorrow of Love A Coat To a Child Dancing in the Wind The Cold Heaven These songs were originally written for voice and piano, but when they were submitted to the BBC New Music committee for acceptance for broadcast, it was suggested that they would more likely get a performance if they were orchestrated. […]