List of pieces which use the octatonic scale

Compositions using the octatonic scale:

• 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.) [1]

Animation Suite, Tin Sentinel [1]

Animation Suite, Clockwork Doll [1]

Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.) [1]

Prelude No. 9 [1][2]

Mazurka No. 1 [1]

• Madeleine Dring

Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos [3]

• Prince Edmond de Polignac

Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879)[4]

"Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886)[5]

• Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5[6]

• The Human Abstract

"Digital Veil" (2011)[7]

• King Crimson

  "Red" (1974).[8]

• Zoltán Kodály

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Mov. II (1910)[9]

• Sergei Rachmaninoff

Trio élégiaque No. 2

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Sadko (1867)[10][11]

• Arnold Schoenberg

Piano Piece, Op. 23, no. 3 (1923)[12]

• Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt., bars 13-20[6]

• Alexander Scriabin

Prelude Op. 74 No. 3 (Scriabin) (1914)[10]

Piano Sonata No. 9, op. 68 (1912-13), melody from bar 5 onwards

• Juan Maria Solare

Octango (2005)

• Igor Stravinsky

Petroushka (1911)[11][13]

The Rite of Spring (1913)[11][13]

Les Noces (1923)[11][14]

Symphony of Psalms (1930)[13]

Agon, "Pas de deux" (1957)[12]

• Kenneth Leighton

Magnificat from the Second Service, Op. 62 (1972)

• Toru Takemitsu

Distance de Fée, SJ1050 (1951)

• Radiohead

"Just" (1995). The octaves in the intro/2nd part of chorus played by Johnny Greenwood

• 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

Sources

1. Stephen Pleskun, A Chronology History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 4 1999-2013 (Publisher Xlibris Corporation, 2014, ISBN 1493135376, 9781493135370)
2. Robert Bremner Publishing (July 15, 2015). "Public extract of Prelude No. 9", robertbremner.com.
3. Maurice Hinson, Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press 1983, 2001; ISBN 0-253-21457-2)
4. Kahan, Sylvia (2009). In Search of New Scales, p.105&115. ISBN 9781580463058.
5. Kahan (2009), p.58.
6. van der Merwe, Peter (2004). Roots of the Classical, p.228. ISBN 9780198166474.
7. Karan, Tim (May 3, 2011). "Track By Track: The Human Abstract", AltPress.com.
8. Keeling, Andrew (2007). King Crimson: Red: An Analysis by Andrew Keeling.
9. Antokoletz, Elliott (1984). The Music of Béla Bartók, p.12. ISBN 9780520067479.
10. Antokoletz (1984), p.10.
11. Kahan (2009), p.1.
12. Schuijer, Michiel (2008). Analyzing Atonal Music, p.13. ISBN 9781580462709.
13. Chemistruck, Daniel (2006). Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, p.8.
14. Van Den Toorn, Pieter C. and McGinness, John (2012). Stravinsky and the Russian Period, p.43. ISBN 9781107021006.