List of pieces which use the whole tone scale

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Cantata Profana, b. 186–87 (Antokoletz 1984, 245)
Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement, b. 484 (Antokoletz 1984, 263)
String Quartet No. 1, end of movement 3 (Antokoletz 1984, 88)
String Quartet No. 4, first movement, b. 157–60 (Antokoletz 1984, 280)
String Quartet No. 5 "The sequence of tonalities of the single sections [of the sonata form] produce the whole-tone scale" (Bartók 1935), 414); "In the first movement of the Fifth String Quartet...the tonalities of the individual sections form a complete whole-tone scale (B♭-C-D-E-F♯-G♯-B♭)." (Cooper 1996, 70)
"Overture 1928" (Traczyk n.d.)
Violin Concerto (Pople 1991, 74–75)
"Nacht" from Seven Early Songs (Gorrell 2002, 119)
Francs-Juges Overture (Antokoletz 2004, 312)
An die Jugend for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale (Stuckenschmidt 1970, 109).
The Stone Guest, passage from Act 3 (Andrews 2001)
Symphony No. 3, first movement, horns, between rehearsals P and Q (Davies 1985, 58–60)
Chansons de Bilitis (Hull 1915, 62)
Children's Corner (Hull 1915, 61)
Images for piano, No. 1 (Hull 1915, 56)
Jeux (Salzman 1974, 203)
La mer (Andrews 2001; Antokoletz 2004, 20)
Pelléas et Mélisande, act 4 scene 2 (Andrews 2001)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, b. 32–33, 35–36 (Schoenberg 1978, 393n1)
Voiles from Préludes, Book 1 (Andrews 2001)
The Dream of Gerontius (Hull 1915, 58)
A Baghdad Lover, nine songs for bass and piano, op. 25 (1911) (Aldrich and Meckna 2001)
Ruslan and Lyudmila, near the end of the Overture, in the finale to act 1, and in the act-4 chorus "Pogibnet! Pogibnet!" (Andrews 2001; Woodside 1990, 68)
"Holographic Sight" (Karan 2011)
Sinfonietta(1926)
"Allegro burlesco" from the Sonatina exotique for piano (Hull 1915, 58)
"Fracture" (Macan 1997, 55)
"Red" (Macan 1997, 55)
"Spacelab" (from The Man-Machine) (Sigman 2011, 15)
Fantasy and Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", for organ (Todd 1981, passim)
Réminiscences de Don Juan (Schoenberg 1978, 390)
Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets", cello part) (Taruskin 2009, 237)
A Musical Joke (Rosen 1998, 556)
Jeux d'Eau, page 1 (DeVoto 2004, 193)
Une fête, No. 6 (Hull 1915, 57)
Les rêves (Hull 1915, 57)
"Am Wegrend", op. 6, no. 6 (Frisch 1997, 218)
Chamber Symphony No. 1 (Frisch 1997, 233–34, 245; Salzman 1974, 32)
"Jesus bettelt", op. 2, no. 2 (Frisch 1997, 103–104)
Pelleas und Melisande (Schoenberg 1978, 393)
String Quartet No. 1 (Frisch 1997, 197–201)
"Sanctus" from the Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D. 950 (Salzer and Schachter 1989, 215, 217–18)
Montag aus Licht, act 1, scene 6, "Das große Geweine", b. 879–81 (Kohl 2004, 131–32)
L'histoire du soldat (Zur 1982, 517–18)
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (introduction) (Perone 2006, 40)

See also

References

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  • Antokoletz, Elliott. 1984. The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520067479.
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  • Perone, James E. 2006. The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music. The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 9780275987237.
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  • Traczyk, Piotr. n.d. "Dream Theater: Overture 1928 - Guitar Tab", AngelFire.com.
  • Woodside, Mary S. 1990. "Leitmotiv in Russia: Glinka's Use of the Whole-Tone Scale". 19th-Century Music 14, no. 1 (Summer): 67–74.
  • Zur, Menachem 1982. "Tonal Ambiguities as a Constructive Force in the Language of Stravinsky". The Musical Quarterly 68, No. 4 (October): 516–26.
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