An early work in this style was his piano suite "Musica Stricta" (1956).
This piano suite was written in two books.
He has written seven musical scores, including a three-movement piano suite, a song cycle for 16 a capella voices, and various chamber works.
Lane's most popular piano suite is Adirondack Sketches.
A piano suite by John Ireland, written about Guernsey.
Koussevitzky's commission, worked out with the publishers of the piano suite, gave him sole conducting rights for several years.
Granados was inspired to write his popular piano suite by the paintings of Francisco Goya.
The opera was based on themes from the famous piano suite, which he orchestrated and augmented to form a three-scene work.
In some of his early piano suites, the emergence of 12-tone serialism as a method of pitch organization can be seen.
This piano suite was the first Canadian composition to use Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone system, though in a modified form.