| op 0 | The Master Goes to Town (Avery) 1977 Christopher Rathbone provided four musical items for this Silver Jubilee Common Room production written by Robert Avery. |
| op 27 | Music for King Lear 1973 (trumpets & perc'n) 2 trumpets, timps, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals |
| op 28 | Aunt Sally (Ionesco) - 'opera' for 6 singers & band |
| op 29 | Love's Labours Lost 1975 2 songs and music for 2 flutes, oboe, bass, harpsichord |
| op 31 | Coriolanus: music for organ clusters 1976 The music for the 1976 school play was written for organ, using mostly clusters, and recorded for use in the play. |
| op 32 | A Midsummer Night's Dream 1977 There are 7 numbers for flute, string quartet, composed for the school play in 1977, and played on stage. |
| op 36 | Pierce's Cave, (Avery) an opera in two acts 1980 This is the Rathbone 'magnum opus', a full-length opera (2 hours) to a poetic libretto by the late Robert Avery (died April 2012), and based on a short play by Avery about a historical figure who took refuge on the Great Blasket Island during the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland. The orchestra is a standard small symphony orchestra. Several orchestral interludes are playable separately (Prelude (Dawn), Storm, Passacaglia, Pierce awaits death.) There are copies of the vocal score available (225 pages). |
| op 38 | Marlborough Blues - revue by Robert Avery 1981 Christopher provided 12 numbers for 2 violins, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet/saxophone, horn, trombone, drums and piano for this show written and produced by Robert Avery. Four items were later arranged for piano quartet for a Summer School recital. |
| op 48 | The Young Visiters (Daisy Ashford) - A musical 1983 - 5 19 musical with 13 songs (lyrics J Byrom) |
| op 49 | The Rose and the Ring (Thackeray) - A musical 1986 musical with 13 songs |
| op 51 | King Lear, music for organ 1989 The music for Robert Avery's last Marlborough production was written for and recorded on the college Chapel organ, employing flourishes, fanfares and clusters chords to reflect and enhance the atmosphere of the play. A selection of the organ music was later worked up into a 13 minute (rather unusual) organ fantasia for concert and recital use. |