List of polytonal pieces

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Musical pieces by style
Period
Neoclassical (see Neoclassicism)
Modernistic (see Modernism)
Style
Dadaistic (see Dada)
Impressionistic (see Impressionist music)
Jazz (see Jazz)
Minimalistic (see Minimalist music)
Nationalistic (see Nationalism)
Populistic (see Populism)
Postminimalistic (see Postminimalism)
Surrealist (see Surrealist music)
Technique
Atonal (see Atonality)
Twelve-tone (see Twelve-tone technique)
List of pieces which use serialism (see Serialism)
Extended techniques (see Extended technique)
Pandiatonic (see Pandiatonic)
Polytonal (see Polytonality)
Process music (see Process music)
Quartal (see Quartal harmony)
Quarter tone (see Quarter tone)
Whole tone (see Whole tone scale)
Phase (see Phasing)
Quotation (see Quotation)
Symphony No. 2 (1944)
Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-14) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of the pentatonic scale on Eb and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian:
Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Patton (1970)
Lincolnshire Posy
Variations on America (1891), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
Cabaret (1966), in the Finale Ultimo
Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"
Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil
The Untouchables (1987)
Ein musikalischer Spass (Reti, 1958)
Lt. Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")
A Festival Prelude
George Washington Bridge
Petrushka, opening fanfare
What The Hell Happened (from Halcyon Days, 2004)
Star Wars[citation needed]

[edit] Source

  • Reti, Rudolph (1958). Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-20478-0.