List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale

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"
• LeoÅ¡ 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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