List of polytonal pieces
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List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.
- Samuel Barber
- Symphony No. 2 (1944)[citation needed]
- 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[1]
- Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"[2]
- Bagatelles (1908)[3] 1st Bagatelle, RH: C♯ minor, LH: C Phrygian.[4]
- Jeff Beal
- Theme from House of Cards[5]
- Heinrich Biber
- Battalia à 10 (1673) [6]
- Benjamin Britten
- Sea Interludes (1945)[7]
- Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)[citation needed]
- Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6[3]
- Vicente García
- Alberto Ginastera
- Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys[8]
- Philip Glass
- Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity[9]
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Planet of the Apes (1968)[citation needed]
- Patton (1970)[citation needed]
- The Omen (1976)[10]
- Percy Grainger
- Gustav Holst
- Arthur Honegger
- Bruce Hornsby
- "What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)[12]
- Charles Ives
- Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910[13]
- Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)[14]
- Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898–99)[3]
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in B♭ major and left hand in A♭ major)[15]
- Captain Beefheart
- Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)[16]
- 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[citation needed]
- Colin McPhee
- Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)[17]
- Darius Milhaud[18]
- Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"[citation needed]
- Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil[citation needed]
- Le Boeuf sur le toit[citation needed]
- String Quartet No.5 (1920)[19]
- Ennio Morricone
- The Untouchables (1987)[citation needed]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")[citation needed]
- Sarcasms, Op. 17. The third movement uses two different key signatures for each hand.[20]
- Alfred Reed
- A Festival Prelude[citation needed]
- Julius Röntgen
- Symphony No. 9 "The Bitonal" (Sept 8, 1930)[21]
- Arnold Schoenberg
- "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)[22]
- William Schuman
- George Washington Bridge[23]
- Igor Stravinsky[18]
- Petrushka, opening fanfare[citation needed]
- Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement[citation needed]
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11[24]
- "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)[25]
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Sources
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- ^ Kostka, Stefan and Payne, Dorothy (1995). Tonal Harmony, p.495. ISBN 0-07-300056-6.
- ^ a b c Richardson, John (1999). Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten, p.73. ISBN 9780819563422.
- ^ Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, p.83. ISBN 9780374249397.
- ^ "Jeff Beal Explains the House of Cards Theme". YouTube.
- ^ Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von. "Battalia à 10". II. Die liederliche Gesellschaft von allerley Humor. imslp.org.
- ^ Wilkins, Margaret Lucy (2006). Creative Music Composition, p.78. ISBN 9780415974677.
- ^ Hinson, Maurice (2000). Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, p.334. ISBN 9780253336460.
- ^ "Philip Glass : Symphony No. 2", ChesterNovello.com.
- ^ a b Karlin, Fred and Wright, Rayburn (2004). On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, p.359. ISBN 9780415941365.
- ^ DeLone, et al. (1975). Aspects of 20th Century Music, p.339. ISBN 0-13-049346-5.
- ^ Diton, Robert (September 23, 2011). "Bruce Hornsby to bring the noise to Englewood", Examiner.com.
- ^ Latham, Alison (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works, p.173. ISBN 9780198610205.
- ^ One of "2 Organ Pieces" (@IMSLP), published 1949
- ^ Ives, Charles. "Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord, Mass., 1840–60'" (PDF). II. The Alcotts. imslp.org.
- ^ "Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis". YouTube.
- ^ Gagné, Nicole V. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, p.171. ISBN 9780810879621.
- ^ a b c Reti, Rudolph (1958). Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music, [page needed]. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-20478-0.
- ^ See [1]. Opens with themes in A, B♭ modal (or F?) and C simultaneously, for example.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Polytonality (music)".
- ^ Gaudeamus. The life of Julius Röntgen (1855-1932). Composer and musician. Dr Jurjen Vis, Waanders Uitgevers Zwolle, 2007, Appendix 4, p.449
- ^ Maconie, Robin (2005). Other Planets, p.71. ISBN 0-8108-5356-6. "Has distinctly polytonal tendencies."
- ^ Swayne, Steve (2011). Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life, p.244. ISBN 9780195388527.
- ^ Berry, Wallace (1976). Structural Functions in Music, p.183n1. ISBN 0-486-25384-8.
- ^ Anatomy of a Musical: An Analysis of the Structure of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
- ^ Country Life, Volume 154, p.2015.
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