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List of quarter tone pieces

Musical pieces by style
Period
Neoclassical (see Neoclassicism)
Modernistic (see Modernism)
Style
Dadaistic (see Dada)
Impressionistic (see Impressionist music)
Jazz (see Jazz)
Minimalistic (see Minimalist music)
Nationalistic (see Nationalism)
Populistic (see Populism)
Postminimalistic (see Postminimalism)
Surrealist (see Surrealism)
Technique
Atonal (see Atonality)
Twelve-tone (see Twelve-tone technique)
List of pieces which use serialism (see Serialism)
Extended techniques (see Extended technique)
Pandiatonic (see Pandiatonic)
Polytonal (see Polytonality)
Process music (see Process music)
Quartal (see Quartal harmony)
Quarter tone (see Quarter tone)
Whole tone (see Whole tone scale)
Phase (see Phasing)
Quotation (see Quotation)
Concert Variations for solo euphonium; the euphoniumist frequently creates quarter tones by using alternate "out of tune" valve combinations and subtle embouchure adjustments.
Cogluotobusisletmesi for piano, 2 or more hands. The notes, B, D, E, and F-sharp on the keyboard are lowered in tuning by a quarter tone in all octaves.
String Quartet No. 6; the third movement Burletta contains quarter-tone tuning used for parodistic effect. Quarter tones are also used in Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin.
Sonata For Solo Violin; the third movement Presto contains quarter-tones, but they are not "structural features." This movement also calls for third-tones.
Xanadu for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (ca. 1930)
Dirge for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, published in New Music quarterly (January 1937)
Dirge for violin and piano (1937)
Rumba for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (ca. 1937)
Quaternion for cello quartet, two of the cellos are tuned down a quarter tone
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, the strings are divided into two sections, one of which is tuned a quarter-tone lower than the other.
Suite for string orchestra (1917)
Fantasy for violin solo in Quarter-tone System
Fantasy for violin & quartertone piano, Op. 21
Sonata for quarter-tone piano, Op 62
String Quartet No. 2 ("In quarter-tone system"), Op.12
String Quartet No. 12 ("In quarter-tone system"), Op. 90
Suite No. 1 (Hába) for quarter-tone clarinet & quarter-tone piano, Op. 24
Suite No. 6 (Hába) for Quarter-Tone Piano, Op 88
Suite for 4 trombones in quarter-tone system, Op. 72
Suite for violin solo in quarter-tone wystem, Op. 93
Quarter-Tone Pieces (3), for 2 pianos, one tuned a quater-tone sharp, S. 128 (K. 3C3) (1923-1924)
Fourth Symphony
Ramifications for 12 solo strings (1968-69), divided into two groups tuned a quarter-tone apart
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, for string orchestra, frequently makes use of quarter tones.
Piano Quintet
Composition en quarts de ton (1963)
À Richard Wagner, for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 26 (1934 -1937)
Chants sur Nietzsche (2), for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 9 (1923)
L'Évangelie Rouge, cycle for voice & 2 pianos in quarter tones(2nd version), Op. 8 (1918-1920)

 
 
 

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