List of pieces which use the octatonic scale

Compositions using the octatonic scale:

Harvest Song (Ara táskor) Violin Duo # 33
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1st mov.) [1]
Animation Suite, Tin Sentinel [1]
Animation Suite, Clockwork Doll [1]
Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.) [1]
Prelude No. 9 [1][2]
Mazurka No. 1 [1]
Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos [3]
Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879)[4]
"Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886)[5]
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5[6]
"Digital Veil" (2011)[7]
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Mov. II (1910)[9]
Sadko (1867)[10][11]
Piano Piece, Op. 23, no. 3 (1923)[12]
Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt., bars 13-20[6]
Prelude Op. 74 No. 3 (Scriabin) (1914)[10]
Piano Sonata No. 9, op. 68 (1912-13), melody from bar 5 onwards
Octango (2005)
Petroushka (1911)[11][13]
The Rite of Spring (1913)[11][13]
Les Noces (1923)[11][14]
Symphony of Psalms (1930)[13]
Agon, "Pas de deux" (1957)[12]
Magnificat from the Second Service, Op. 62 (1972)
"Just" (1995). The octaves in the intro/2nd part of chorus played by Johnny Greenwood
Fok julle Naaiers (2011). Piano line in the intro is octatonic, bass synth adds a ninth tone.

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stephen Pleskun, A Chronology History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 4 1999-2013 (Publisher Xlibris Corporation, 2014, ISBN 1493135376, 9781493135370)
  2. Robert Bremner Publishing (July 15, 2015). "Public extract of Prelude No. 9", robertbremner.com.
  3. Maurice Hinson, Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press 1983, 2001; ISBN 0-253-21457-2)
  4. Kahan, Sylvia (2009). In Search of New Scales, p.105&115. ISBN 9781580463058.
  5. Kahan (2009), p.58.
  6. 1 2 van der Merwe, Peter (2004). Roots of the Classical, p.228. ISBN 9780198166474.
  7. Karan, Tim (May 3, 2011). "Track By Track: The Human Abstract", AltPress.com.
  8. Keeling, Andrew (2007). King Crimson: Red: An Analysis by Andrew Keeling.
  9. Antokoletz, Elliott (1984). The Music of Béla Bartók, p.12. ISBN 9780520067479.
  10. 1 2 Antokoletz (1984), p.10.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Kahan (2009), p.1.
  12. 1 2 Schuijer, Michiel (2008). Analyzing Atonal Music, p.13. ISBN 9781580462709.
  13. 1 2 3 Chemistruck, Daniel (2006). Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, p.8.
  14. Van Den Toorn, Pieter C. and McGinness, John (2012). Stravinsky and the Russian Period, p.43. ISBN 9781107021006.
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