List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale

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This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale.


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Whole tone scale in Debussy's Voiles, mm. 1–4
  • Joe Hisaishi
    • "Les Aventuriers" from Piano Stories II – The Wind of Life, 1996

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Antokoletz 1984, 245.
  2. ^ Antokoletz 1984, 263.
  3. ^ Antokoletz 1984, 88.
  4. ^ Antokoletz 1984, 280.
  5. ^ Bartók 1935, 414.
  6. ^ Cooper 1996, 70.
  7. ^ Pople 1991, 74–75.
  8. ^ Gorrell 2002, 119.
  9. ^ Antokoletz 2004, 312.
  10. ^ Stuckenschmidt 1970, 109.
  11. ^ Leikin 2015, 128.
  12. ^ a b c d e Andrews 2001.
  13. ^ Davies 1985, 58–60.
  14. ^ Hull 1915, 62.
  15. ^ Hull 1915, 61.
  16. ^ Hull 1915, 56.
  17. ^ Salzman 1974, 203.
  18. ^ Antokoletz 2004, 20.
  19. ^ Schoenberg 1978, 393n1.
  20. ^ a b Hull 1915, 58.
  21. ^ Aldrich and Meckna 2001.
  22. ^ Woodside 1990, 68.
  23. ^ Karan 2011.
  24. ^ Macan 1997, 55.
  25. ^ Sigman 2011, 15.
  26. ^ Todd 1981, passim.
  27. ^ Schoenberg 1978, 390.
  28. ^ Taruskin 2009, 237.
  29. ^ McMillan 2008, 153.
  30. ^ Rosen 1998, 556.
  31. ^ DeVoto 2004, 193.
  32. ^ a b Hull 1915, 57.
  33. ^ Rimsky-Korsakov 1886, 25–26.
  34. ^ Frisch 1997, 218.
  35. ^ Frisch 1997, 233–234, 245.
  36. ^ Salzman 1974, 32.
  37. ^ Frisch 1997, 103–104.
  38. ^ Schoenberg 1978, 393.
  39. ^ Frisch 1997, 197–201.
  40. ^ Salzer and Schachter 1989, 215, 217–218.
  41. ^ Kohl 2004, 131–132.
  42. ^ Zur 1982, 517–518.
  43. ^ Moreira 2014, 53.
  44. ^ Tarasti 2009, 231–232.
  45. ^ Perone 2006, 40.

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  • Antokoletz, Elliott. 1984. The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520067479.
  • Antokoletz, Elliott. 2004. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195103830.
  • Bartók, Béla. 1935. "Analysis for the Fifth String Quartet". In Béla Bartók Essays.[full citation needed] Cited in Michael John Malone. Symbols of Transformation.[full citation needed], 2008: p. 83. ISBN 9780549783367.
  • Cooper, David. 1996. Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521485050.
  • Davies, Peter Maxwell. 1985. Symphony No. 3. (score) London: Boosey & Hawkes.
  • DeVoto, Mark. 2004. Debussy and the Veil of Tonality.[full citation needed] ISBN 9781576470909.
  • Frisch, Walter. 1997. Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893–1908. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520212183.
  • Gorrell, Lorraine. 2002. Discordant Melody.[full citation needed] ISBN 9780313323669.
  • Hull, Arthur Eaglefield. 1915. Modern Harmony: Its Explanation and Application. London: Augener
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