# List of polytonal pieces

List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.
* Samuel Barber
** Symphony No. 2 (1944)
* 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
** Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"
** Bagatelles (1908) 1st Bagatelle, RH: C♯ minor, LH: C Phrygian.
* Jeff Beal
** Theme from House of Cards
* Heinrich Biber
** Battalia à 10 (1673)
* Benjamin Britten
** Sea Interludes (1945)
** Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)
** Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6
* Vicente García
** San Bá
* Alberto Ginastera
** Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys
* Philip Glass
** Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
* Jerry Goldsmith
** Planet of the Apes (1968)
** Patton (1970)
** The Omen (1976)
* 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" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)
* Charles Ives
** Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
** Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)
** Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898–99)
** Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in B♭ major and left hand in A♭ major)
* Captain Beefheart
** Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)
** 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
* Colin McPhee
** Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)
* Darius Milhaud
** Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"
** Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil
** Le Boeuf sur le toit
** String Quartet No.5 [fr] (1920)
* Ennio Morricone
** The Untouchables (1987)
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Ein musikalischer Spass
* Sergei Prokofiev
** Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")
** 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" (Sept 8, 1930)
* Arnold Schoenberg
** "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)
* William Schuman
** George Washington Bridge
* Igor Stravinsky
** Petrushka, opening fanfare
** Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement
** Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11
** "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)
* John Williams
** Star Wars (1977)
** Jaws (1975)
* John Zdechlik
** Chorale and Shaker Dance

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* ↑ 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.
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* ↑ See . 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.
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* ↑ 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.