List Of Pieces Which Use Polytonality

• Bla Bartk

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:

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• Ludwig van Beethoven (Reti, 1958)

Eroica Symphony, in the horns and strings four measures before the recapitulatoin in the first movement (Reti, 1958)

Piano Sonata, op. 81a (Les Adieux), near the end of the first movement (Reti, 1958)

Piano Sonata, op. 31, No. 2, in the development (Reti, 1958)

• Ferruccio Busoni (Reti, 1958)

• Frederic Chopin (Reti, 1958)

• Philip Glass

Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity

• Charles Ives

Variations on America (1891), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910

• Gustav Mahler (Reti, 1958)

• Darius Milhaud (Reti, 1958)

Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif" (AllClassicalGuide)

• Mozart

Ein musikalischer Spass (Reti, 1958)

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• Hans Newsidler (1508-1563)

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• Richard Strauss (Reti, 1958)

• Igor Stravinsky (Reti, 1958)

Petrushka, opening fanfare

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• Richard Wagner (Reti, 1958)

Source

• Reti, Rudolph (1958). Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313204780.

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