IL CATALOGO delle opere corali a cappella di B. Britten

A Wealden Trio: the Song of the Women (F.M. Ford), carol, SSA, 1929–30, rev. 1967 (1968);

A Hymn to the Virgin (anon., c1300), anthem, SATB double chorus, 1930, rev. 1934 (1935);

The Sycamore Tree (trad.), carol, SATB, 1930, rev. 1934, 1967 (1968);

Christ's Nativity, Christmas suite S, C, SATB, 1931 (1994);
1 Christ's Nativity (H. Vaughan)
2 Sweet was the song (W. Ballet's lute bk)
3 Preparations (Christ Church MS)
4 New Prince, New Pomp (Bible, R. Southwell)
5 Carol of King Cnut (C.W. Stubbs)

A Boy was Born (15th- and 16th-century carols, C. Rossetti), choral variations, male vv, female vv, boys’ vv, 1932–3 (1934), rev. 1955, rev. with org ad lib 1957–8 (1958);

Advance Democracy (R. Swingler), SSAATTBB, 1938 (1939)

A.M.D.G. (G.M. Hopkins) SATB, 1939 (1989);
1 Prayer I
2 Rosa mystica
3 God's Grandeur
4 Prayer II
5 O Deus, ego amo te
6 The Soldier
7 Heaven-Haven

Hymn to St Cecilia (W.H. Auden), SSATB, 1941–2 (1942), rev. 1966 (1967);

A Shepherd's Carol (Auden), SATB, 1944 (1962);

Chorale after an Old French Carol (Auden), SSAATTBB, 1944 (1992);

Deus in adjutorium meum [from incid music to This Way to the Tomb] (Ps lxx), SATB, 1945 (1983);

Five Flower Songs SATB, 1950 (1951);
1 To Daffodils (R. Herrick)
2 The Succession of the Four Sweet Months (Herrick)
3 Marsh Flowers (G. Crabbe)
4 The Evening Primrose (J. Clare)
5 Ballad of Green Broom (anon.)

We are the darkness in the heat of the day [arr. of no.2 from The Heart of the Matter] (E. Sitwell), SMezATB, c1956 (1997)

Sweet was the Song [rev. of Christ's Nativity, no.2] (W. Ballet's lute bk), carol, SSAA, 1966 (1966);

! For Alec's 80th Birthday, canon, 3-pt vv, 1971 (1972) [tribute to Alec Robertson]

Sacred and Profane (8 medieval lyrics), SSATB, 1974–5 (1977);