He also wrote music as an undergraduate, composing a piano sonata, a number of cabaret songs, and a setting of T.S. Eliot's poem, "Lines for an Old Man".
His Musica sacra (1724) contains 30 anthems and a setting of the Church of England burial service that is still in use.
Other work includes ensemble piece Crosswalk, a new duet Jenn And Spencer, and Festival Dance and a setting of Hummel's Piano Trio in E that weaves together some of Morris's most inventive dance patterns.
"The Peony Pavilion," it would seem, has all the makings of an evening-length dance: a beautiful heroine, a noble hero who carries a willow branch, and a setting of the always mystical spirit world.
Credo was an attempt to symbolise his frustration with what had become, for him, the dry, desiccated, "children's games" of the avant garde, a world of purity represented by tonality and a quotation from Bach, and a setting of a religious text.
Added to that are songs based on the writings of the early documentary film-maker Dziga Vertov and a setting of a Martial epigram about the weighing of a penis that ties in with his continuing sequence of works based on historic writing on sex.
