List of polytonal pieces

List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.


 * Samuel Barber
 * Symphony No. 2 (1944)
 * 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
 * Mikrokosmos No. 105, "Playsong"
 * Bagatelles (1908) 1st Bagatelle, RH: C♯ minor, LH: C Phrygian.
 * Jeff Beal
 * Theme from House of Cards
 * Heinrich Biber
 * Battalia à 10 (1673)
 * Benjamin Britten
 * Sea Interludes (1945)
 * Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959)
 * Folk Songs of the British Isles, Vol. 1, No. 6
 * Vicente García
 * San Bá
 * Alberto Ginastera
 * Danzas Argentinas - 1. "Danza del viejo boyero" (1937), RH: white keys, LH: black keys
 * Philip Glass
 * Symphony No. 2, used for ambiguity
 * Jerry Goldsmith
 * 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)
 * 'Patton' (1970)
 * The Omen (1976)
 * Percy Grainger
 * Lincolnshire Posy
 * Gustav Holst
 * The Planets (Neptune)
 * Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
 * Arthur Honegger
 * Symphony for Strings, III
 * Bruce Hornsby
 * "What The Hell Happened" (from Halcyon Days, 2004)
 * Charles Ives
 * Variations on "America" (1891-1892), polytonal interludes added 1909-1910
 * Adeste fidelis for organ (1897)
 * Sixty-seventh Psalm (1898–99)
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) III. The Alcotts, presence of bitonality (right hand in B♭ major and left hand in A♭ major)
 * Captain Beefheart
 * Frownland, from Trout Mask Replica (1969)
 * 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
 * Colin McPhee
 * Concerto for Piano, with Wind Octette Acc. (1928)
 * Darius Milhaud
 * Scaramouche, in the first movement "Vif"
 * Sorocaba, from Saudades Do Brasil
 * Le Boeuf sur le toit
 * String Quartet No. 5 (Milhaud) (1920)
 * Ennio Morricone
 * The Untouchables (1987)
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Ein musikalischer Spass
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Lieutenant Kijé Suite (mov. V, "The Burial of Kijé")
 * Sarcasms, Op. 17. The third movement uses two different key signatures for each hand.
 * Alfred Reed
 * A Festival Prelude
 * Julius Röntgen
 * Symphony No. 9 "The Bitonal" (Sept 8, 1930)
 * Arnold Schoenberg
 * "Gavotte", Suite for Piano Op. 25 (1923)
 * William Schuman
 * George Washington Bridge
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Petrushka, opening fanfare
 * Symphony of Psalms - 3rd Movement
 * Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), rehearsal No. 11
 * "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)
 * John Williams
 * Star Wars (1977)
 * Jaws (1975)
 * John Zdechlik
 * Chorale and Shaker Dance