List of pieces which use the octatonic scale information
Compositions using the octatonic scale:
Radiohead
"Just" (1995). Jonny Greenwood plays a series of OCT02 scales on the guitar during the intro (0:06-0:16) and each chorus (0:55-1:05, 1:44-1:55, 2:47-3:09)[1]
Béla Bartók
Harvest Song (Ara táskor) Violin Duo # 33
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 : (bars 130-132)
Etude in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9: (bars 28-30)
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question (solo trumpet part)
Julian Cochran
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1st mov.) [2][self-published source]
Fire Dance[2]
Animation Suite, Tin Sentinel[2]
Animation Suite, Clockwork Doll[2]
Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.) [2]
Prelude No. 9 [2][3]
Mazurka No. 1 [2]
Madeleine Dring
Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos[4]
Prince Edmond de Polignac
Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879)[5]
"Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886)[6]
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5[7]
The Human Abstract
"Digital Veil" (2011)[8]
King Crimson
"Red" (1974).[9]
Nirvana
"Oh, the Guilt" (1993) (verses)
"Blandest" (1988) (verses)
Procol Harum
"Whaling Stories" on Procol Harum – Live In New York (April 1971)
Zoltán Kodály
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Mov. II (1910)[10]
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Trio élégiaque No. 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sadko (1867)[11][12]
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Piece, Op. 23, no. 3 (1923)[13]
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt., bars 13-20[7]
Piano Sonata in C major, D 840 (Schubert), 1st mvt bars 33-39
Alexander Scriabin
Prelude Op. 74, No. 3 (1914)[11]
Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (1912-13), melody from bar 5 onwards
Juan Maria Solare
Octango (2005)
Transfuga
Igor Stravinsky
Petroushka (1911)[12][14]
The Rite of Spring (1913)[12][14]
Les Noces (1923)[12][15]
Symphony of Psalms (1930)[14]
Agon, "Pas de deux" (1957)[13]
Kenneth Leighton
Magnificat from the Second Service, Op. 62 (1972)
Toru Takemitsu
Distance de Fée, SJ1050 (1951)
Die Antwoord
Fok julle Naaiers (2011). Piano line in the intro is octatonic, bass synth adds a ninth tone.
Adi Morag
"Octabones" (1999)
Orbital
Oolaa from the Green Album
Suraj Synthesist Khayaal , a lil fantasy[16][17]
^Victoria Malawey, “Ear Training with the Music of Radiohead.” Indiana Theory Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2012, pp. 27–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24045402.
^ abcdefgStephen Pleskun, A Chronology History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 4 1999-2013 (Publisher Xlibris Corporation, 2014, ISBN 1493135376, 9781493135370)
^Maurice Hinson, Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press 1983, 2001; ISBN 0-253-21457-2)
^Kahan, Sylvia (2009). In Search of New Scales, p.105&115. ISBN 9781580463058.
^Kahan (2009), p.58.
^ abvan der Merwe, Peter (2004). Roots of the Classical, p.228. ISBN 9780198166474.
^Karan, Tim (May 3, 2011). "Track By Track: The Human Abstract", AltPress.com.
^Keeling, Andrew (2007). King Crimson: Red: An Analysis by Andrew Keeling.
^Antokoletz, Elliott (1984). The Music of Béla Bartók, p.12. ISBN 9780520067479.
^ abAntokoletz (1984), p.10.
^ abcdKahan (2009), p.1.
^ abSchuijer, Michiel (2008). Analyzing Atonal Music, p.13. ISBN 9781580462709.
^ abcChemistruck, Daniel (2006). Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, p.8.
^Van Den Toorn, Pieter C. and McGinness, John (2012). Stravinsky and the Russian Period, p.43. ISBN 9781107021006.
^Shetty, Suraj. Khayaal, a lil fantasy: Full score : Band/Trio & Solo.
^"Khayaal, a lil fantasy: Full score : Band/Trio & Solo Sheet Music | Suraj Synthesist | Jazz Ensemble". www.sheetmusicdirect.com. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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