Chamber music includes two Piano sonatas, a Violin sonata, three String quartets and the Piano trio: "Burnt Norton Sketches" (1985) which were later orchestrated by Christopher Austin (1999). Song cycles include "Spring 1948" (1956), "The Pity of Love" (1966), "Songs of Old Age" (1968), the orchestral song cycle "In My Childhood" (1998), "Another Spring" (2008) and "The Coming" (2010). Music for children and young people includes the opera "Finn and the Black Hag" (1959), "Songs of Unity" (1968) written for Methodist College, Belfast and several pieces written for youth orchestras including "Ring of Light" (2005), "A Star Danced" (2009) and "Variations on a Gloucester Chime" (2012). His shorter choral works include the cantata "The Death of Orpheus" (1953 revised 2009), the motet "Salvator Mundi" (1976), "The Starlight Night" (1990), the evening canticles written for Bristol Cathedral: "The Bristol Service" (1991) and "Celtic Blessings" (1996). Music for dance includes two notable collaborations with Helen Lewis, "There is a Time" (1970) and the London Children's Ballet, "Ballet Shoes" (2001).