1. Not repudiated; but shelved for better times or lost in worse. The question, however, was imprecise; and it allowed Spinner's many-enveloped reply to escape from the period between 1936 and 1941 (the year of the op. 2 string quartet).

2. Snapshots of opp. 1–28 have always shown the same immaculate flower-beds; row upon row. Such views seldom invite questions concerning the uprooted groundsel and convolvulus. Although closer inspection reveals that many of the works with opus numbers are still unpublished and unperformed, even that discovery may not prompt urgent questions about the development of a composer whose published works are all, to varying extents, rooted in Webernian precept. For instance, one might assume from a glance at the published scores of opp. 3–4 that the unpublished opp. 1–2 could safely be taken for granted (and that the 1941 revision of op. 1 brought it ‘in line’ with the rest). One would be wrong.