List of pieces which use polytonality

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Musical pieces by style
<center>Period
Neoclassicalistic (see Neoclassicism (music))
Modernistic (see Modernism (music))
<center>Style
Dadaistic (see Dada)
Impressionistic (see Impressionist music)
Jazz (see Jazz)
- with Jazz
Minimalistic (see Minimalist music)
Nationalistic (see Nationalism)
Populistic (see Populist music)
Postminimalistic (see Postminimalism)
Surrealist (see Surrealism (music))
<center>Technique
Atonal (see Atonality)
Twelve-tone (see Twelve-tone technique)
with Extended techniques (see Extended technique)
Pandiatonic (see Pandiatonic)
Polytonal (see Polytonality)
- with Polytonality
Process music (see Process music)
Quartal (see Quartal harmony)
- with Quartal elements
Quarter tone (see Quarter tone)
- with Quarter tones
Whole tone (see whole tone)
Phase (see Phasing)
with Quotations (see Quotation)
- with Quotations of popular music (see Popular music)


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:
Image:Bartok's Boating RH and LH pitch collections.PNG
Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
Lincolnshire Posy
Variations on America (1891), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif" (AllClassicalGuide)
Ein musikalischer Spass (Reti, 1958)
Image:K522 multitonality.png
? (Reti, 1958, cites Harvard Dictionary of Music's article "Polytonality")
A Festival Prelude
George Washington Bridge
Petrushka, opening fanfare
Image:Stravinsky-petrushka-fanfare.png
Patton (1970)
The Untouchables (1987)
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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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