Although most of Percy Pitt's compositions seem to have been performed during his lifetime, not everything was published; and not every published work received an opus number. Many of his works were published by Augener, who also published Bridge, Delius and Ireland. A partial list of Pitt's published compositions (both with and without opus numbers) appears in (34 volumes, published between 1904 and 1910). Some works appear to have been given an opus number after the volume was published some time before 1910. However, gaps still apparently remain in the sequence of opus numbers, e.g. Op. 2, 7, 12, 13 etc. Nevertheless, the opus numbers seem to have been chronologically assigned in approximate composition order.
A number of works exist both in versions for orchestra and for piano reduction (solo or duet), and the dates assigned to many of the entries in this incomplete list should be treated with caution.
According to his own introduction in Pitt's biography, Henry Wood gave the first performances of most of Pitt's major works after 1896 except the G minor Sinfonietta which was written at the request of Hans Richter, who conducted it at the 1906 Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
List of works without opus number
Orchestra
Suite in D major - Prelude & Bourrée (1891) Orchestral Suite (Suite d'Orchestre?) in four movements (1895) Overture, "Taming of the Shrew". (1898) Hercules March (1898) Incidental music for "Paolo and Francesca". (1902) Incidental music to 'Flodden Field' (1902) Incidental music to 'Richard II' (1903) Symphony (Sinfonietta) in G minor (1906) English Rhapsody (1910) Serenade for small orchestra (1911) Sakura suite No. 1 (1914) Sakura suite No. 2 (Suite de Ballet) (1915) Ballet Egyptien (1915) Suite pour petite orchestre (1915) Symphonic poem 'Anactoria', for viola and orchestra.
Chamber
Piano Trio (1890)
Piano
Tarantella in C, for piano. (1902) Improvisation, for piano. (pub. Ascherberg, 1919) Carnet de Voyage, pour piano. (1928) 1. Prelude 2. Souvenir 3. Sérénade à la lune 4. Berceuse 5. Valse mignonne. Five Dances - Suite in the old style, for piano, etc. (orch?) (1930)
Songs with Orchestra
Five Poems for baritone & orchestra (after Lenau, Cornelius, Dahn, Tasso, etc.? (1902) Four Poems for mezzo-soprano & orchestra. (1904) 'Sérénade du passant' for soprano and orchestra, for Luisa Tetrazzini (1912)
Solo songs
A Free Lance (pub. Leonard) Edenland (pub. Willcocks) Fedora - Gavotte For Memory's Sake (pub. Ascherberg) Her coming (pub. Ricordi) Let us forget (1928) Lines to his Ladye (after a 17th-century poem by H. Byatt). (1894) Love is a Dream (Alfred Austin). (pub. Elkin, 1903). Springtime (1928) Week before Easter (arr. Sussex folk song) When we two parted (pub. Ascherberg) Year after year (pub. Boosey) Yesterday and Today (Frances H. Burnett). Unpublished holograph MS dated 6 November 1892. When I am dead, my dearest. (words, C. Rossetti) (pub. Gale, Weekes) (1896)
Chorus
The Blessed Damozel, for chorus and orchestra. Schwerting the Saxon, for chorus and orchestra. Zephyr, stay thy vagrant flight. Glee for TTBB male voices (1894) Der Trauernde Jager (The Stricken Hunter), for 6-part chorus. (1912)