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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • ' (1920)
  • Ennio Morricone
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ein musikalischer Spass
  • Symphony No. 3
  • 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
  • "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

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