The following list omits some juvenilia and works destroyed.

1953 * A Cambridge Postlude: organ

1954 * Postlude on Adeste Fideles: organ

* Prelude: organ (MS)

* Three Preludes on Songs 46, 20 and 34 by Orlando Gibbons: organ (MS)

1955 Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce): mezzo/piano (MS)

Sonatina: flute or recorder/piano

* Toccata: organ

Jesus Christ is Risen Today: SATB

1956 Fantasy: clarinet/piano

* Threnody: cello/piano

* Four W. H. Auden Songs: soprano/piano

* Five Early Piano Pieces [Contemplations I, II, III; Inventions I, II] (MS)

Five Essays: piano (MS)

1957 * Vitalitas Variations: piano

* Variations on a French Folk Song: harpsichord

Five Blake Songs: tenor, clarinet, horn, bassoon (MS)

Music for Brass: 2 trumpets, 3 trombones (MS)

1958 * Meditation on Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot): organ

String Quartet No. 1

Prelude, Bacchanal and Elegy (Dickinson): speaker/2 pianos (MS)

* Air: solo flute

1959 * A Dylan Thomas Song Cycle: baritone/piano

Juilliard Dances: 6 instruments, piano, percussion

* Study in Pianissimo: organ

Fantasia: solo violin

* Monologue for Strings

1960 * Three Comic Songs (Auden): tenor/piano

* Let the Florid Music Praise (Auden): tenor/piano

Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems: SATB/organ

1961 Sonata: violin/piano

1962 * Four Duos: flute (or oboe)/cello

Music for Oboe and Chamber Organ

Baroque Trio: flute, oboe, harpsichord

1963 Two Motets: John, Mark (Thomas Blackburn) ATB

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: ATB (MS)

Hymn-Tunes Made New: SATB

* Five Forgeries: piano duet

* Dirge: organ

* Five Diversions: clavichord, harpsichord or piano

1964 * Carillon: organ

* Three Statements: organ

1965 * The Judas Tree (Blackburn): 6 actors, SATB, 11 instruments, organ, percussion

* Four Easy Pieces: piano

* An E. E. Cummings Song Cycle: mezzo/piano

Mass: SATB

1966 Sonatina: solo bassoon (MS)

Elegy (Swinburne): counter-tenor, harpsichord, cello

Martin of Tours (Blackburn): tenor, baritone, SATB, organ, piano

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: unision voices/organ

Three Complaints (Ian Whybrow): children's choir, instruments, percussion

For the Nativity (John Heath Stubbs): SATB

1967 Fanfares and Elegies: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, organ

* Paraphrase I: organ

Three Pieces for Four Groups: voices, instruments, percussion (MS)

* My Love is like a Red, Red Rose (Burns): mezzo/piano

The Dry Heart (Alan Porter): SATB

* Paraphrase II: piano