For voice and piano. / Text by John Fletcher.

For voice and piano / Text by Mary Webb

For voice and piano / Text by AE [George Russell]

For voice and piano / Text by AE [George Russell]

For choir. Text by David McKee Wright / Score: LBP, Paris. (Signed ‘P G Hicks’) / Same as in Choral Suite, 1932

For voice and piano / Text by William Butler Yeats / MS: LBP, Monaco.

For voice and piano / Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley

For voice and piano / Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley

These and the previous four works were performed at the Benefit Concert in the Melbourne Town Hall, 2nd June 1932

For voice and piano / Text by Fiona McLeod / MS: LBP, Monaco

For voice and piano / Text by Ernest Dowson / MS: LBP, Monaco

Text by David McKee Wright / MS: LBP, Monaco / Probably the same as Ireland, 1931

Opera in one act of three scenes, for soloist, chorus and orchestra / Text by the composer / MS: ML box 29
Original score inscribed ‘1935-36’; for extracts see Prelude for Orchestra, 1936

Text by John Fletcher / MS: VSL

For women's chorus and English horn / Text by Rabindranath Tagore / Also known as Pastorale

Published in Piper’s Music, by Arthur Benjamin, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Esther Rofe and John Tallis, p. 6-9 / Score: VSL

For small orchestra in D minor / MS: VSL; Score: ML / Also known as Sinfonia and as Symphonetta; this work has a theme allegedly appropriated by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his Symphony No. 4, and re-used by P G-H many times

MS: Not located

For chamber ensemble / For a rewriting of this work see Three Gymnopédies, 1953

Ballet for flute, harp, strings and percussion / MS: VSL

MS: ML box 29 / Manuscript in ink on paper inscribed ‘Vienna, October 1936’

For soprano, oboe, string quartet

For chorus and orchestra / Text by John Fletcher

Extracts from Caedmon, 1933 / Front cover: Frontispiece of Junius Manuscript, copied by PG-H in India ink

Music for an abstract cartoon film, produced in London / MS:VSL / Also known as Music for Robots

MS: Not located

MS: Not located / Also known as Flute Concerto

For large orchestra / MS: VSL / Manuscript inscribed ‘Vienna’

For female voices, oboe and string orchestra / Text by John Fletcher - Five Poems, 1579 / (In blue ink, signed ‘P. Glanville Hicks, 29 Queensborough Terrace, London W.2. Paris, September 1937’; scores, with inserted note-paper from Neocopie Musicale, Paris (No. 1), and parts, some stamped ‘American Composers Alliance Library’

Ballet for chamber orchestra / MS: VSL / Based on the painting ‘The Wedding Group’ by Henri Rousseau

Music for a film, produced in London

Music for a documentary film / MS: VSL

In three movements / Also known as Sonatina for Treble Recorder or Flute and Piano and as Flute Sonata

MS: Not located

For piano solo / Published in New Music for Piano, selected by Joseph Prostakoff (New York: Lawson-Gould, 1963) and in Frauen Komponieren; 22 Klavierstücke des 18-20 Jahrhunerts, edited by Eva Rieger (Mainz: Schott, 1985) / Also known as Piano Prelude

MS: Not located

For voice and piano / Text by Alfred Edward Housman – Last poems, 1922 / Score inscribed ‘N.Y.C. 1944’ / also known as Songs of A.E. Housman

Five songs (version 1) for mezzo-soprano and piano (version 2) for tenor, piano, string quartet and bass. / Text by Eunice Tietjens, 1917.

For tenor, women’s chorus, oboe, piano, gong / Text by Mario Monteforte-Toledo / MS: VSL.

Three songs for voice and piano / Text by Paul Bowles, 1930 / Cover design by Paul Bowles.

Ballet in two acts for narrator, woodwinds, percussion / Text by Erick Hawkins / MS: VSL; inscribed ‘NYC 1946-47’ / For a choral version of this work see Dance Cantata, 1946

For tenor, baritone, narrator, spoken and singing chorus and orchestra / Navajo text, arranged by Erick Hawkins / Onion skins: ML / For a ballet version of this work see Killer-of-Enemies, 1946

For flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano / Onion skins: Lyrebird Press, Paris; inscribed ‘P G-H, New York 1946’ / Score and parts: ML box 29; inscribed ‘Return to R Vaughan Williams, The White Gate, Dorking’ / Score only: ABC FML / Performed widely by The Australia Ensemble; sheet and records income collected by Music Sales Group

Three songs / Text by Paul Bowles / Same as Ballade (1945)

Thirteen songs for soprano and piano / Text by Wallace Stevens from Harmonium, 1923 / Dedication: ‘to Cathalene Parker’; sheet and records income collected by Music Sales Group

Five musical parodies for tenor or soprano, with flute, horn, piano, string quartet / Text from Virgil Thomson’s reviews from the columns of the New York Herald Tribune / Score and piano reduction: VSL / Subtitled ‘A Birthday Offering to Virgil Thomson’; reprint of score in Soundings, nos. 14-15 (1986)

Music for a documentary film produced by the U.S. State Department for circulation in occupied territories / Onion skins: ML box 29

Dedication: ‘to Nicanor Zabaleta’ / also known as Harp Sonata

MS: not located

Music for a cartoon film produced by Film Graphics Inc

For piano, xylophone, timpani, suspended cymbal, 3 gongs, tam tam, tom tom, bass drum / Sheet and records income collected by Music Sales Group

Arrangement of score and parts for performance

Piano reduction

For tenor and chamber orchestra Six excerpts from letters of Paul Bowles, with an unset seventh excerpt that may be spoken / Score: VSL; ABC FML / Score and parts available on hire only from Peters, Australian agent: Allans Publishing
First performance, 22nd February 1953, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Score: VSL (Inscribed: ‘S. W. Pacific, 1952. Port Antonio, Jamaica, B. W. I. 1953.P G-H); ABC FML / Dedicated to Sir Bernard Heinze / Score and parts available on hire from Music Sales Group / Also known as Sinfonia Pacifica

MS (facsimile): Library of Congress / Score: VSL / Score and parts available on hire from Music Sales Group / Rewritten from Spanish Suite, 1935

Opera in six scenes for soprano, tenor, baritone, two speaking parts, chorus, chamber orchestra / Libretto by the composer after the novel by Thomas Mann, Die vertauschten Köpfe, 1940, translated into English by Helen Lowe-Porter / German text of the libretto by Moritz von Bomhard.(unlocated) / Score: University of Louisville, School of Music Library Archives / Sheet and records income collected by Music Sales Group / Commissioned by the Louisville Philharmonic Society through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation; Lovesick (Nanda’s aria) is also published separately by AMP

For piano and chamber orchestra / A response to David Herbert Lawrence’s Etruscan places, 1932 / Score: VSL (inscribed ‘13.7.54. N.Y.C.’) / Score and parts: ABC FML (woodwind parts missing?) / Score and parts available on hire from Peters, Australian agent: Allans Publishing / Also published in a piano reduction (Peters, 1955)

For soprano, alto, tenor, bass / Text by Wallace Stevens / MS: ML (Inscribed ‘‘NYC 15/11/55’) / Also known as Madrigal No. 2

For soprano, alto, tenor, bass / Text by Wallace Stevens / MS: ML / Also known as Madrigal No. 5

For soprano, alto, tenor, bass / Text by Wallace Stevens / MS: ML / Also known as Madrigal No. 6

For harp and string quartet / Score: ML box 29 / Written for and dedicated to Edna Phillips, ‘München 6.7.55’
performed, 17th January 1958, Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, by Edna Phillips and the Juilliard String Quartet / there may also be a setting of this work for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano / Commissioned by Judge Samuel Rosenbaum

For viola and chamber orchestra / Score: VSL (Inscribed ‘Starnberg bei München 17.5.56’) / ABC FML - Viola and piano score available from AMC, Sydney / Written for Walter Trampler / also known as Viola Concerto

Curtain-raiser opera in one act for tenor, baritone, chamber orchestra, electronic tape (‘of unearthly laughter’) by Vladimir Ussachevsky / Text by Lord Dunsany / Score: Allans Publishing / Scores and parts available on hire from Theodore Presser, Australian agent: Allans Publishing / Composed in Munich and orchestrated in Mallorca; first performance, 14th May 1959, at the YM-YWHA in New York

Music for the film, series: All Our Children, produced by the United Nations / MS: ML box 29

For piccolo, flutes, pan pipes, whistles, owl, armadillo, maracas, scraper, drums, conch, handclapping / Also known as Prelude and Presto for Ancient American Instruments / Manuscript inscribed ‘NYC 24.6.57’ / tunes from Lima & Cuzco

For flutes, harp, marimba, timpani and percussion / Score: VSL / Score and parts: ML box 29 (Inscribed: ‘NYC 1957’) ACA Library / First Performance, 20th January 1982, Sydney Town Hall

Ballet for small instrumental ensemble, choreographed by John Butler, 1958 Spoleto Festival / Gymnopedie is Glanville-Hicks’s contribution to this composite ballet, with music also by Duke Ellington, Serge Prokofiev, & Germaine Taillefaire

Music for an animated documentary film on the Suez crisis, produced for UNICEF / For clarinet, violin, percussion

Ballet for flute, celeste, harp, piano, percussion, strings / Score and parts available on hire from Peters Commissioned by John Butler for the first Spoleto Festival; for an orchestral version see Tapestry for Orchestra, 1964

For woodwinds, brass, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, piano, strings / Score only available on hire from Peters, Australian agent: Allans Publishing / For a ballet version see The Masque of the Wild Man, 1958

Ballet for trumpet, percussion, strings / MS: Peters / Score only available on hire from Peters Commissioned by CBS Color Television for choreography by John Butler / for an orchestral version see Drama for Orchestra, 1966

Opera libretto only (incomplete) / Commissioned for Halim El-Dabh

Opera in three acts with prologue and interludes, for soprano, contralto, three tenors, baritone, bass-baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra / Libretto by Alastair Reid (uncredited) from Homer’s Daughter by Robert Graves, 1955 / Score: Allans Publishing / Score and parts available from Theodore Presser, Australian agent: Allans Publishing / Score inscribed ‘NYC April 30, 1960’; First performed at Athens Festival, August 1961

For clarinet, trumpet, timpani, percussion, piano, xylophone, strings / Score: VSL / Score and parts available for hire from Peters / First performance, 12th February 1960, by the NAACC Festival Orchestra, conducted by Alfredo Antonini; performed 5th December 1964, by The Philharmonia of New York, conducted by Edward Gerber / For a ballet version see Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1959

Opera for solo male voice and orchestra / Text by Wallace Stevens (Opus Posthumous) / Score: no evidence of its existence / Text: ML / A proposed opera, for which rights were negotiated (through Alfred A. Knopf) with the Estate of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Opera in three acts for mezzo-soprano, lyric tenor, dramatic tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra / Libretto by Lawrence Durrell from Sappho, a play in verse, 1950, with the addition of original Sappho fragments (translated) / MS: AMP (Inscribed ‘3.10.68’) / Score: VSL (Inscribed ‘6/10/68’) / Libretto: ML box 10 (Original and copy with emendations [1965]) / Commissioned by the San Francisco Opera Company with funds from the Ford Foundation. This original version (1963) has not been located

Ballet for orchestra / Score and parts: ABC FML / Commissioned by CBS Color Television for choreography by John Butler / for an orchestral version see Tragic Celebration, 6 November, 1966

Commissioned by Edward B. Benjamin / Performance in 1965/6 in New Orleans(?) / performance in ‘Composing Australia’, ABC FM series; includes a theme also used in Concerto Antico, 1955.. ML. ABC Music Library

For orchestra / MS: not located (Referred to in a letter from Pamela Ilott, Director of Religious Broadcasts, CBS News, 23rd February 1966)

For chamber orchestra of timpani, percussion, harp, strings / Score: VSL / Score and parts: ML / Score and piano reduction: Peters / Score available for hire / Commissioned by CBS Color Television for series ‘Lamp Unto My Feet’ / First Australian performance in ‘Composing Australia’, ABC FM series, 1994 / for ballet version see Jephthah’s Daughter, 1966

Ballet for orchestra / After the poem ‘Une saison en enfer’ by Arthur Rimbaud / Score: ML / Commissioned by the Harkness Ballet for choreography by John Butler / First performed 15th November 1967, Broadway Theater, New York

For piccolo, flute, trombone, double bass, drum, suspended cymbal / One of seven pieces by five Australian and two American composers, to accompany the sculptures in the Pamela Boden exhibition, Sydney and Melbourne, 1978. Score and parts, AMC Sydney

Opera in two acts / Text by Wendy Beckett

Proposed chamber work, not fulfilled

Proposed commission by St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, not offered