Unfinished and Incomplete Works
- Quest, for various objects (first movement) and piano (second movement) (1935, only the second movement survives)
- Chess Pieces, for piano (1943)
- Encounter, for piano (1946)
- Unfinished work for voice (1953)
- Unfinished work for magnetic tape (c. 1952–53)
- One13, for one live cello and recordings of three cellos (1992)
- Sixteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass (1992)
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