List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale explained

This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale.

• Béla Bartók
  • Cantata Profana, b. 186–187
  • Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement, b. 484
  • String Quartet No. 1, end of movement 3
  • String Quartet No. 4, first movement, b. 157–160
  • String Quartet No. 5 "The sequence of tonalities of the single sections [of the sonata form] produce the whole-tone scale". "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)."
  • Mikrokosmos, Volume V, No.136 "Whole-Tone Scales"
• Alban Berg
  • Violin Concerto
  • "Nacht" from Seven Early Songs
• Hector Berlioz
  • Francs-Juges Overture
• Ferruccio Busoni
  • An die Jugend for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale.
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Prelude No. 19, mm. 43–44, in the bass, "while the melody moves down chromatically"
• Alexander Dargomyzhsky
  • The Stone Guest, passage from act 3
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Symphony No. 3, first movement, horns, between rehearsals P and Q

• Claude Debussy
  • Chansons de Bilitis
  • Children's Corner
  • Images for piano, No. 1
  • Jeux
  • La mer
  • Pelléas et Mélisande, act 4 scene 2
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, b. 32–33, 35–36
  • Voiles from Préludes, Book 1
• Edward Elgar
  • The Dream of Gerontius
• Blair Fairchild
  • A Baghdad Lover, nine songs for bass and piano, Op. 25 (1911)
• Mikhail Glinka
  • Ruslan and Lyudmila, near the end of the overture, in the finale to act 1, and in the act 4 chorus "Pogibnet! Pogibnet!"
• The Human Abstract
  • "Holographic Sight"
• Leoš Janáček
  • Sinfonietta (1926)
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  • "Allegro burlesco" from the Sonatina exotique for piano
• King Crimson
  • "Fracture"
  • One More Red Nightmare
• Kraftwerk
  • "Spacelab" (from The Man-Machine)
• Franz Liszt
  • Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", for organ
  • Réminiscences de Don Juan
• Gustav Mahler
  • Symphony No. 5, end of fifth movement, b. 784-787
  • Das Lied von der Erde, sixth movement, b. 454-459
• Olivier Messiaen
  • Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets", cello part)
• Lee Morgan
  • "Our Man Higgins"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • A Musical Joke
• Giacomo Puccini
  • Madama Butterfly
• Maurice Ravel
  • Jeux d'Eau, page 1
• Vladimir Rebikov
  • Une fête, No. 6
  • Les rêves
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Piano Concerto, 1882, Allegro
• Arnold Schoenberg
  • "Am Wegrand", Op. 6, no. 6
  • Chamber Symphony No. 1
  • "Jesus bettelt", Op. 2, no. 2
  • Pelleas und Melisande
  • String Quartet No. 1
• Franz Schubert
  • "Sanctus" from the Mass No. 6 in E major, D. 950
• Sparks
  • "In the Future" from the album Indiscreet
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Montag aus Licht, act 1, scene 6, "Das große Geweine", b. 879–881
• Igor Stravinsky
  • L'Histoire du soldat
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Chôros No. 2
  • String Quartet No. 3, second movement (Molto Vivo)
• Stevie Wonder
  • "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (introduction)
• Joe Hisaishi
  • "Les Aventuriers" from Piano Stories II – The Wind of Life, 1996

See also

• Impressionist music

References

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