List of quarter tone pieces
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- Concert Variations for solo euphonium; the euphoniumist frequently creates quarter tones by using alternate "out of tune" valve combinations and subtle embouchure adjustments.
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- Cogluotobusisletmesi for piano, 2 or more hands. The notes, B, D, E, and F-sharp on the keyboard are lowered in tuning by a quarter tone in all octaves.
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- String Quartet No. 6; the third movement Burletta contains quarter-tone tuning used for parodistic effect. Quarter tones are also used in Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin.
- Sonata For Solo Violin; the third movement Presto contains quarter-tones, but they are not "structural features." This movement also calls for third-tones.
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- Xanadu for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (ca. 1930)
- Dirge for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, published in New Music quarterly (January 1937)
- Dirge for violin and piano (1937)
- Rumba for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (ca. 1937)
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- Lux Subtilissima (2006), "Consort Musicke" for string quartet (1/4 and 1/6 tones are used)
- En la soledat i el silenci (2007), for hyper-tempered koto and guitar
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- Quaternion for cello quartet, two of the cellos are tuned down a quarter tone
- Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, the strings are divided into two sections, one of which is tuned a quarter-tone lower than the other.
- Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten for flute, harp, and viola includes a quarter-sharp and three-quarter-sharp at one point in the piece.
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- Suite for string orchestra (1917)
- Fantasy for violin solo in Quarter-tone System
- Fantasy for violin & quartertone piano, Op. 21
- Sonata for quarter-tone piano, Op 62
- String Quartet No. 2 ("In quarter-tone system"), Op.12
- String Quartet No. 12 ("In quarter-tone system"), Op. 90
- Suite No. 1 (Hába) for quarter-tone clarinet & quarter-tone piano, Op. 24
- Suite No. 6 (Hába) for Quarter-Tone Piano, Op 88
- Suite for 4 trombones in quarter-tone system, Op. 72
- Suite for violin solo in quarter-tone system, Op. 93
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- Quarter-Tone Pieces (3), for two pianos, one tuned a quarter-tone sharp, S. 128 (K. 3C3) (1923-1924)
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- Ramifications for 12 solo strings (1968-69), divided into two groups tuned a quarter-tone apart
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- Emanations (Emanacje, 1959) for two string orchestras tuned a quarter tone apart
- Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, for string orchestra, frequently makes use of quarter tones.
- Symphony #1 (1973), commissioned by the British firm Perkins Engines, is heavily quarter-tone, including clusters of such.
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- Composition en quarts de ton (1963)
- À Richard Wagner, for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 26 (1934 -1937)
- Chants sur Nietzsche (2), for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 9 (1923)
- L'Évangelie Rouge, cycle for voice & 2 pianos in quarter tones (2nd version), Op. 8 (1918-1920)
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