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

Béla Bartók Cantata Profana, b. 186–187 Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement, b. 484 String Quartet No. 1, end of movement 3 String Quartet No. 4, first movement, b. 157–160 String Quartet No. 5 "The sequence of tonalities of the single sections [of the sonata form] produce the whole-tone scale". "In the first movement of the Fifth String Quartet...the tonalities of the individual sections form a complete whole-tone scale (B–C–D–E–F–G–B)." Mikrokosmos, Volume V, No.136 "Whole-Tone Scales" Alban Berg Violin Concerto "Nacht" from Seven Early Songs Hector Berlioz Francs-Juges Overture Ferruccio Busoni An die Jugend for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale. Frédéric Chopin Prelude No. 19, mm. 43–44, in the bass, "while the melody moves down chromatically" Alexander Dargomyzhsky The Stone Guest, passage from act 3 Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No. 3, first movement, horns, between rehearsals P and Q

Claude Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Children's Corner Images for piano, No. 1 Jeux La mer Pelléas et Mélisande, act 4 scene 2 Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, b. 32–33, 35–36 Voiles from Préludes, Book 1 Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Blair Fairchild A Baghdad Lover, nine songs for bass and piano, Op. 25 (1911) Mikhail Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila, near the end of the overture, in the finale to act 1, and in the act 4 chorus "Pogibnet! Pogibnet!" The Human Abstract "Holographic Sight" Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta (1926) Sigfrid Karg-Elert "Allegro burlesco" from the Sonatina exotique for piano King Crimson "Fracture" One More Red Nightmare Kraftwerk "Spacelab" (from The Man-Machine) Franz Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", for organ Réminiscences de Don Juan Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5, end of fifth movement, b. 784-787 Das Lied von der Erde, sixth movement, b. 454-459 Olivier Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets", cello part) Lee Morgan "Our Man Higgins" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A Musical Joke Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly Maurice Ravel Jeux d'Eau, page 1 Vladimir Rebikov Une fête, No. 6 Les rêves Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto, 1882, Allegro Arnold Schoenberg "Am Wegrand", Op. 6, no. 6 Chamber Symphony No. 1 "Jesus bettelt", Op. 2, no. 2 Pelleas und Melisande String Quartet No. 1 Franz Schubert "Sanctus" from the Mass No. 6 in E major, D. 950 Sparks "In the Future" from the album Indiscreet Karlheinz Stockhausen Montag aus Licht, act 1, scene 6, "Das große Geweine", b. 879–881 Igor Stravinsky L'Histoire du soldat Heitor Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 2 String Quartet No. 3, second movement (Molto Vivo) Stevie Wonder "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (introduction) Joe Hisaishi "Les Aventuriers" from Piano Stories II – The Wind of Life, 1996

See also Impressionist music

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