List of polytonal pieces

List of polytonal pieces

*Samuel Barber::"Symphony No. 2 (1944)
*Béla Bartók::"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:

*Ferruccio Busoni (Reti, 1958)

*Frédéric Chopin (Reti, 1958)

*Philip Glass::Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity

*Jerry Goldsmith::""Planet of the Apes"" (1968)::""Patton"" (1970)

*Percy Grainger::"Lincolnshire Posy"

*Charles Ives::"Variations on America" (1891), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910

*John Kander::"Cabaret" (1966), in the "Finale Ultimo"

*Gustav Mahler (Reti, 1958)

*Darius Milhaud (Reti, 1958)::"Scaramouche", in the first movement "Vif"::"Sorocaba", from "Saudades Do Brasil"::"'Le Boeuf sur la toit

*Ennio Morricone::"The Untouchables" (1987)

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart::"Ein musikalischer Spass" (Reti, 1958)

*Vincent Persichetti

*Sergei Prokofiev::"Lt. Kijé Suite" (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")

*Alfred Reed::"A Festival Prelude"

*William Schuman::"George Washington Bridge"

*Richard Strauss (Reti, 1958)

*Igor Stravinsky (Reti, 1958)::"Petrushka", opening fanfare

*Richard Wagner (Reti, 1958)

*Bruce Hornsby::"What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)

*John Williams::"Star Wars" Fact|date=February 2007

ource

*Reti, Rudolph (1958). "Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music". Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-20478-0.


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