List of pieces which use the whole tone scale

List of pieces which use the whole tone scale

*Béla Bartók::"String Quartet No. 5"

*Alban Berg::"Violin Concerto"::"Nacht" from "Seven Early Songs"

*Ferruccio Busoni::"An die Jugend" for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale.

*Claude Debussy::"Voiles" from Preludes, Book 1

*King Crimson:: Fracture:: Red

*Kraftwerk:: Spacelab (from The Man-Machine)

*Liars:: "Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris With Esg"

*Olivier Messiaen:: Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets")

*Mirrors and Copulation:: "I Took Care of my Parents"

*Maurice Ravel:: "Jeux d'Eau"

ee also

* Whole tone scale
* Impressionist music


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