List of polytonal pieces

List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.

• Samuel Barber
  • Symphony No. 2 (1944)Template: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 ETemplate:Music dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian<ref>Stein, Deborah (2005). "Introduction to Musical Ambiguity" in Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, p.82-3. New York: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"<ref>Kostka, Stefan and Payne, Dorothy (1995). Tonal Harmony, p.495. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Bagatelles (1908)<ref name="Arch"/> 1st Bagatelle, RH: CTemplate:Music minor, LH: C Phrygian.<ref>Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, p.83. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Jeff Beal
  • Theme from House of Cards<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Heinrich Biber
  • Battalia à 10 (1673) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Benjamin Britten
  • Sea Interludes (1945)<ref>Wilkins, Margaret Lucy (2006). Creative Music Composition, p.78. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)Template:Citation needed
  • Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6<ref name="Arch">Richardson, John (1999). Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten, p.73. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Vicente García
  • San BáTemplate:Citation needed
• Alberto Ginastera
  • Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys<ref>Hinson, Maurice (2000). Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, p.334. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Philip Glass
  • Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity<ref>"Philip Glass : Symphony No. 2", ChesterNovello.com.</ref>
• Jerry Goldsmith
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)Template:Citation needed
  • Patton (1970)Template:Citation needed
  • The Omen (1976)<ref name="Track"/>
• Percy Grainger
  • Lincolnshire PosyTemplate:Citation needed
• Gustav Holst
  • The Planets (Neptune)Template:Citation needed
  • Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
• Arthur Honegger
  • Symphony for Strings, III<ref name="20th">DeLone, et al. (1975). Aspects of 20th Century Music, p.339. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Bruce Hornsby
  • "What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)<ref>Diton, Robert (September 23, 2011). "Bruce Hornsby to bring the noise to Englewood", Examiner.com.</ref>
• Charles Ives
  • Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910<ref>Latham, Alison (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works, p.173. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)<ref>One of "2 Organ Pieces" (@IMSLP), published 1949</ref>
  • Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898–99)<ref name="Arch"/>
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in BTemplate:Music major and left hand in ATemplate:Music major)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Captain Beefheart
  • Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 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 UltimoTemplate:Citation needed
• Colin McPhee
  • Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)<ref>Gagné, Nicole V. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, p.171. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Darius Milhaud<ref name="Reti">Reti, Rudolph (1958). Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music, Template:Page needed. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"Template:Citation needed
  • Sorocaba, from Saudades Do BrasilTemplate:Citation needed
  • Le Boeuf sur le toitTemplate:Citation needed
  • Template:Ill (1920)<ref>See [1]. Opens with themes in A, BTemplate:Music modal (or F?) and C simultaneously, for example.</ref>
• Ennio Morricone
  • The Untouchables (1987)Template:Citation needed
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ein musikalischer Spass<ref name="Reti"/>

Ein musikalischer Spass Template:Audio

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")Template:Citation needed
  • Sarcasms, Op. 17. The third movement uses two different key signatures for each hand.<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica, "Polytonality (music)".</ref>
  • Symphony No. 3Template:Citation needed
• Alfred Reed
  • A Festival PreludeTemplate:Citation needed
• Julius Röntgen
  • Symphony No. 9 "The Bitonal" (Sept 8, 1930)<ref>Gaudeamus. The life of Julius Röntgen (1855-1932). Composer and musician. Dr Jurjen Vis, Waanders Uitgevers Zwolle, 2007, Appendix 4, p.449</ref>
• Arnold Schoenberg
  • "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)<ref>Maconie, Robin (2005). Other Planets, p.71. Template:ISBN. "Has distinctly polytonal tendencies."</ref>
• William Schuman
  • George Washington Bridge<ref>Swayne, Steve (2011). Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life, p.244. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Igor Stravinsky<ref name="Reti"/>
  • Petrushka, opening fanfareTemplate:Citation needed
  • Symphony of Psalms - 3rd MovementTemplate:Citation needed
  • Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11<ref>Berry, Wallace (1976). Structural Functions in Music, p.183n1. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • "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)<ref>Anatomy of a Musical: An Analysis of the Structure of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds</ref>

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• John Williams
  • Star Wars (1977)<ref name="Track">Karlin, Fred and Wright, Rayburn (2004). On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, p.359. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Jaws (1975)
• John Zdechlik
  • Chorale and Shaker DanceTemplate:Citation needed