List of polytonal pieces
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List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.
- Samuel Barber
- Symphony No. 2 (1944)[citation needed]
- Béla Bartók
- Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-76) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of E♭ dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian[1]
- Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"[2]
- Bagatelles (1908)[3] 1st Bagatelle, RH: C♯ minor, LH: C Phrygian.[4]
- Jeff Beal
- Theme from House of Cards[5]
- Heinrich Biber
- Battalia à 10 (1673) [6]
- Benjamin Britten
- Sea Interludes (1945)[7]
- Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)[citation needed]
- Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6[3]
- Vicente García
- San Bá[citation needed]
- Alberto Ginastera
- Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys[8]
- Philip Glass
- Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity[9]
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Planet of the Apes (1968)[citation needed]
- Patton (1970)[citation needed]
- The Omen (1976)[10]
- Percy Grainger
- Gustav Holst
- Arthur Honegger
- Bruce Hornsby
- "What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)[12]
- Charles Ives
- Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910[13]
- Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)[14]
- Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898–99)[3]
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in B♭ major and left hand in A♭ major)[15]
- Captain Beefheart
- Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)[16]
- Hair Pie: Bake Two, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)
- Petrified Forest, from Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
- Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee, from Doc At The Radar Station (1980)
- John Kander
- Cabaret (1966), in the Finale Ultimo[citation needed]
- Colin McPhee
- Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)[17]
- Darius Milhaud[18]
- Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"[citation needed]
- Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil[citation needed]
- Le Boeuf sur le toit[citation needed]
- String Quartet No.5 [fr] (1920)[19]
- Ennio Morricone
- The Untouchables (1987)[citation needed]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")[citation needed]
- Sarcasms, Op. 17. The third movement uses two different key signatures for each hand.[20]
- Alfred Reed
- A Festival Prelude[citation needed]
- Julius Röntgen
- Symphony No. 9 "The Bitonal" (Sept 8, 1930)[21]
- Arnold Schoenberg
- "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)[22]
- William Schuman
- George Washington Bridge[23]
- Igor Stravinsky[18]
- Petrushka, opening fanfare[citation needed]
- Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement[citation needed]
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11[24]
- "Rite of Spring"
- Karol Szymanowski
- String Quartet No. 1 in C major Movement 3 (1917). Each part has its own key: Cello, C; Viola, 3 flats; Violin 2, 6 sharps; Violin 1, 3 sharps. See score.
- Jeff Wayne
- The War of the Worlds - "The Red Weed (Parts 1 & 2)" (B and G major)[25]
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