List of polytonal pieces

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
  • San Bá ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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
  • Lincolnshire Posy ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Gustav Holst
  • The Planets (Neptune) ^{[ citation needed ]}
  • Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
• Arthur Honegger
  • Symphony for Strings , III ^[11]
• 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  [ fr ] (1920) ^[19]
• Ennio Morricone
  • The Untouchables (1987)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ein musikalischer Spass ^[18]

Ein musikalischer Spass Play

• 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]
  • Symphony No. 3 ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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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• John Williams
  • Star Wars (1977) ^[10]
  • Jaws (1975)
• John Zdechlik
  • Chorale and Shaker Dance ^{[ citation needed ]}

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14. One of "2 Organ Pieces" (@IMSLP), published 1949
15. Ives, Charles. "Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord, Mass., 1840–60'" (PDF). II. The Alcotts. imslp.org.
16. "Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis". YouTube .
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19. See . Opens with themes in A, B♭ modal (or F?) and C simultaneously, for example.
20. Encyclopædia Britannica, "Polytonality (music)".
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25. Anatomy of a Musical: An Analysis of the Structure of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
26. Country Life, Volume 154, p.2015.