1946-48

Mid-West School of Educationat Brinsford Lodge, near Birmingham

• Sinfonietta (abandoned) TMM 1946
• Mass in G for chorus and orchestra (abandoned) TMM 1946
• Spring Songs for soprano and orchestra: 'O western wind'; 'The earth has cast her winter skin' (Charles d'Orléans, trans. A.B.); 'Spring the sweet spring' (Thomas Nashe) TMM 1946
• 'I sing of a maiden' (anon.) for voice and string quartet TMM 1946
• 'This was real': a group of stage songs TMM 1947
• 'These things shall be': a celebration for Bedwellty Grammar School TMM 1947
• 'Inversnaid' (Gerard Manley Hopkins) for SATB unaccompanied TMM 1947
• Three Shakespeare Songs for voice and piano: 'Apemantus's Song'; 'Under the Greenwood Tree'; 'Come thou monarch of the vine' TMM 1947
• Song of a Northern City (piano, orchestra) CC 1947
• Sanctus (abandoned) LW 343

Notes

Works that are not asterisked no longer exist or their location is unknown. Most of these are mentioned by Burgess himself in his writings.

TMM = This Man and Music; CC = Contemporary Composers; LW = Little Wilson and Big God; VB = A Vision of Battlements

Musical scores exist of the works that are asterisked. All of these are located at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, unless otherwise indicated. Locations are indicated within { } brackets.

{private} = manuscript is in a private collection or owned by an individual

Dates of composition, where given, are the dates signed by Burgess on the manuscript.

Dates in brackets are not signed on the manuscript by Burgess but are otherwise known or estimated.

n.d. = no date

Paul Phillips, May 5th 2004