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]

• 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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• John Williams
  • Star Wars (1977)^[10]
  • Jaws (1975)
• John Zdechlik
  • Chorale and Shaker Dance^{[citation needed]}