List of polytonal pieces
List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.
- Samuel Barber
- *Symphony No. 2
- Béla Bartók
- *Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening of "Boating", 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 1st Bagatelle, RH: C minor, LH: C Phrygian.
- Jeff Beal
- *Theme from House of Cards
- Heinrich Biber
- *Battalia à 10
- Benjamin Britten
- *Sea Interludes
- *Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
- *Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6
- Vicente García
- *San Bá
- Alberto Ginastera
- *Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero", RH: white keys, LH: black keys
- Philip Glass
- *Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
- Jerry Goldsmith
- *Planet of the Apes
- *Patton
- *The Omen
- 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"
- Charles Ives
- *Variations on "America", polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
- *Adeste fidelis for organ
- *Sixty-seventh Psalm
- *Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality
- Captain Beefheart
- *Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica
- *Hair Pie: Bake Two, from Trout Mask Replica
- *Petrified Forest, from Lick My Decals Off, Baby
- *Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee, from Doc At The Radar Station
- John Kander
- *Cabaret, in the Finale Ultimo
- Colin McPhee
- *Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc.
- Darius Milhaud
- *Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"
- *Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil
- *Le Boeuf sur le toit
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- Ennio Morricone
- *The Untouchables
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- *Ein musikalischer Spass
- Sergei Prokofiev
- *Lieutenant Kijé Suite
- *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"
- Arnold Schoenberg
- *"Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25
- William Schuman
- *George Washington Bridge
- Igor Stravinsky
- *Petrushka, opening fanfare
- *Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement
- *Symphonies of Wind Instruments, rehearsal No. 11
- *"Rite of Spring"
- Karol Szymanowski
- *String Quartet No. 1 in C major Movement 3. 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 "
- John Williams
- *Star Wars
- *Jaws
- John Zdechlik
- *''Chorale and Shaker Dance''