"in a chinese temple garden" was published by bosworth in 1923, in versions for orchestra, piano, two pianos, and violin and piano. the critic ronald ever wrote in 1958 about ketèlbey's use of "every exotic noisemaker known to man—chimes, orchestra bells, gongs (all sizes and nationalities), cymbals, woodblocks, xylophone, drums of every variety". he noted: "oriental music is ketèlbey music: the clashing cymbals; the little pinging bells; the minor modes; the amazingly graphic mincing step created by rapidly reiterated notes; the coy taps on the woodblock."