List of pieces which use the octatonic scale

Compositions using the octatonic scale:


 * Radiohead
 * "Just" (1995). Jonny Greenwood plays a series of OCT02 scales on the guitar during the intro (0:06-0:16) and each chorus (0:55-1:05, 1:44-1:55, 2:47-3:09)


 * Béla Bartók
 * Harvest Song (Ara táskor) Violin Duo # 33


 * Frederic Chopin


 * Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 : (bars 130-132)
 * Etude in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9: (bars 28-30)


 * Charles Ives
 * The Unanswered Question (solo trumpet part)


 * Julian Cochran
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (1st mov.)
 * Fire Dance
 * Animation Suite, Tin Sentinel
 * Animation Suite, Clockwork Doll
 * Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.)
 * Prelude No. 9
 * Mazurka No. 1


 * Madeleine Dring
 * Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos


 * Prince Edmond de Polignac
 * Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879)
 * "Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886)


 * Joseph Haydn
 * String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5


 * The Human Abstract
 * "Digital Veil" (2011)


 * King Crimson
 * "Red" (1974).


 * Nirvana
 * "Oh, the Guilt" (1993) (verses)
 * "Blandest" (1988) (verses)


 * Procol Harum
 * "Whaling Stories" on Procol Harum – Live In New York (April 1971)
 * Zoltán Kodály
 * Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Mov. II (1910)


 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Trio élégiaque No. 2


 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Sadko (1867)


 * Arnold Schoenberg
 * Piano Piece, Op. 23, no. 3 (1923)


 * Franz Schubert
 * Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt., bars 13-20
 * Piano Sonata in C major, D 840 (Schubert), 1st mvt bars 33-39


 * Alexander Scriabin
 * Prelude Op. 74, No. 3 (1914)
 * Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (1912-13), melody from bar 5 onwards


 * Juan Maria Solare
 * Octango (2005)
 * Transfuga


 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Petroushka (1911)
 * The Rite of Spring (1913)
 * Les Noces (1923)
 * Symphony of Psalms (1930)
 * Agon, "Pas de deux" (1957)


 * Kenneth Leighton
 * Magnificat from the Second Service, Op. 62 (1972)


 * Toru Takemitsu
 * Distance de Fée, SJ1050 (1951)


 * Die Antwoord
 * Fok julle Naaiers (2011). Piano line in the intro is octatonic, bass synth adds a ninth tone.


 * Adi Morag
 * "Octabones" (1999)


 * Orbital
 * Oolaa from the Green Album


 * Suraj Synthesist  Khayaal, a lil fantasy