[4] She is one of the women pioneers in electronic music composition in Great Britain for her earliest musique concrete pieces belong to the late 1950s.
[5][6][7][8][9] These influences also enriched her writing for acoustic instruments as in "Study of the Object no 3" (1970) for unaccompanied voices, a graphic score she calls sound sculpture,[9] "Mestra" (1979–80) for solo flutes and "Hunting Horns are Memories" (1977) for horn and tape for which she worked out quarter tone fingerings for the F/B flat double horn.
[9] Janet Beat is included in the British Music Collection archive at Heritage Quay, Huddersfield.
Selected works include: Some of these pieces are published by Furore Verlag, Kassel, Germany.
She has written professional articles including: She won the Cunningham Award in 1962.