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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 ."
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
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