List of pieces which use polytonality
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Musical pieces by style
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<center>Technique |
Atonal (see Atonality) |
Twelve-tone (see Twelve-tone technique) |
with Extended techniques (see Extended technique) |
Pandiatonic (see Pandiatonic) |
Polytonal (see Polytonality) |
- with Polytonality |
Process music (see Process music) |
Quarter tone (see Quarter tone) |
- with Quarter tones |
Whole tone (see whole tone) |
Phase (see Phasing) |
with Quotations (see Quotation) |
- with Quotations of popular music (see Popular music) |
- Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-14) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of the pentatonic scale on Eb and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian:
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- Ludwig van Beethoven (Reti, 1958)
- Eroica Symphony, in the horns and strings four measures before the recapitulatoin in the first movement (Reti, 1958)
- Piano Sonata, op. 81a (Les Adieux), near the end of the first movement (Reti, 1958)
- Piano Sonata, op. 31, No. 2, in the development (Reti, 1958)
- Ferruccio Busoni (Reti, 1958)
- Frederic Chopin (Reti, 1958)
- Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
- Variations on America (1891), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
- Gustav Mahler (Reti, 1958)
- Darius Milhaud (Reti, 1958)
- Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif" (AllClassicalGuide (http://www.allclassical.com))
- Ein musikalischer Spass (Reti, 1958)
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- Hans Newsidler (1508-1563)
- ? (Reti, 1958, cites Harvard Dictionary of Music's article "Polytonality")
- Richard Strauss (Reti, 1958)
- Igor Stravinsky (Reti, 1958)
- Petrushka, opening fanfare
- Richard Wagner (Reti, 1958)
Source
- Reti, Rudolph (1958). Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313204780.