List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.
- Samuel Barber
- Symphony No. 2 (1944)
- Béla Bartók
- Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-76) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of E dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian
- Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"
- Bagatelles (1908) 1st Bagatelle, RH: C minor, LH: C Phrygian.
- Jeff Beal
- Theme from House of Cards
- Heinrich Biber
- Battalia ÃÂ 10 (1673)
- Benjamin Britten
- Sea Interludes (1945)
- Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)
- Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6
- Vicente GarcÃÂa
- San Bá
- Alberto Ginastera
- Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys
- Philip Glass
- Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Patton (1970)
- The Omen (1976)
- Percy Grainger
- Lincolnshire Posy
- Gustav Holst
- The Planets (Neptune)
- Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
- Arthur Honegger
- Symphony for Strings, III
- Bruce Hornsby
- "What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)
- Charles Ives
- Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
- Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)
- Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898âÂÂ99)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in B major and left hand in A major)
- Captain Beefheart
- Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)
- Hair Pie: Bake Two, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)
- Petrified Forest, from Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
- Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee, from Doc At The Radar Station (1980)
- John Kander
- Cabaret (1966), in the Finale Ultimo
- Colin McPhee
- Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)
- Darius Milhaud
- Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"
- Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil
- Le Boeuf sur le toit
- ' (1920)
- Ennio Morricone
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ein musikalischer Spass
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")
- Sarcasms, Op. 17. The third movement uses two different key signatures for each hand.
- Symphony No. 3
- Alfred Reed
- A Festival Prelude
- Julius Röntgen
- Symphony No. 9 "The Bitonal" (Sept 8, 1930)
- Arnold Schoenberg
- "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)
- William Schuman
- George Washington Bridge
- Igor Stravinsky
- Petrushka, opening fanfare
- Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11
- "Rite of Spring"
- Karol Szymanowski
- String Quartet No. 1 in C major Movement 3 (1917). Each part has its own key: Cello, C; Viola, 3 flats; Violin 2, 6 sharps; Violin 1, 3 sharps. See score.
- Jeff Wayne
- The War of the Worlds - "The Red Weed (Parts 1 & 2)" (B and G major)
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