List of atonal compositions

This is a list of atonal musical compositions. Pieces are listed by composer.

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B
Bla Bartk
Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20[1]
Three Etudes for Piano, op. 18[1][2][3]
First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1921)[4]
Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1922)[1][4]
John J. Becker
Symphonia brevis (1929)[5]
Concerto arabesque (1930)[5]
Alban Berg
Lulu[6][7]
Wozzeck[6][7]
Chamber Concerto (1925)[8]
Johanna Beyer
Clusters (1936)[9]
Chester Biscardi
At the Still Point (1977)[10]
Henry Brant
Ghost Nets (1988)[11]

C
John Cage
Julian Carrillo
Symphony No. 3 (1940)[12]
Elliott Carter
String Quartet No. 1 (1950)[13]
Ruth Crawford-Seeger
Nine preludes for piano (192528)[14]
Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930)[14]

D
Mario Davidovsky
String Quartet No. 1 (1954)[15]
Concertino for Percussion and String Orchestra (1954)[15]
Noneto (1956)[15]

E
Duke Ellington
The Clothed Woman (1947)[16][17]

F
Vivian Fine
Four Polyphonic Pieces for Piano (1931)[18]
Four Songs (1933)[18]
Lukas Foss
Time Cycle (1960)[19]
Echoi (1963)[19]

G
Miriam Gideon
The Hound of Heaven (1945)[20]
String Quartet (1946)[20]
Symfonia Brevis (1953)[20]
Mixco (1957)[20]
Of Shadows Numberless (1966)[20]

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Leon Kirchner
Piano Trio No. 1 (1954)[21]
String Quartet No. 3 (1966)[21]
Lily (1977)[21]
Music for Twelve (1985)[21]
Music for Cello and Orchestra (1992)[21]
Ernst Krenek
Symphony No. 2 (1922)[22]

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Orlando Lasso
Prophetiae Sibyllarum[23]
Franz Liszt
Bagatelle sans tonalit (1885), S.216a[24]

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M
Nicholas Maw
Essay (1961)[25]
Scenes and Arias (1962)[25]

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P
Henri Pousseur
Exercices (1956)[26]
Krzysztof Penderecki
Emanationem
Partita per harpsichord

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R
Dane Rudhyar
Pentagrams Nos. 1-4 (1924-26)[14]
Three Paeans (1925-27)[14]
Granites (1929)[14]
Carl Ruggles
Angels (1921)[14]
Vox clamans in deserto (1923)[14]
Portals (1926)[14]
Sun-Treader (1933)[14]

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Arnold Schoenberg

George Lieder [The Book of the Hanging Gardens] (1909), Op. 15/1[27]
Erwartung (1909), Op. 17[23]
String Quartet No. 2 (1907), Op. 10, last movement[28]
Five Pieces for Orchestra (Fnf Orchesterstcke) (1909), Op. 16[29][30]
Pierrot Lunaire (1912), Op. 21[31]
Drei Klavierstcke (1909), Op. 11[32][33][34][35][36][37]
Four Orchestral Songs (1916), Op. 22[38]
Die glckliche Hand, Op. 18[39][40]
Herzgewchse (1911), Op. 20[41]
Die Jakobsleiter[42]
Sechs kleine Klavierstcke (1913), op. 19[43][44]
Five Pieces for Piano, op.23[45]

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (1913)[46][47]

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T
Louise Talma
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1979)[48]
The Ambient Air (1981)[48]
Full Circle (1985)[48]

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Edgard Varse

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Density 21.5 (1936)[49]

Orandes (1922)[14]
Intgrales (1925)[14]
Arcana (1927)[14]
Dserts (1954)[50]

W
Anton Webern
Five Movements (1909), Op. 5[51]
Six Pieces (1910), Op. 6[51]
Six Bagatelles (1913), Op. 9[51]
Stefan Wolpe
Enactments (1953)[52]
Symphony (1956)[52]

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Other composers

REFERENCES

Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies,[53] Jacob Druckman,
Barbara Kolb,[54] Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough,[55] Alexander Goehr,[56] Lou Harrison, Paul
Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, Gyrgy Ligeti, Witold Lutosawski, George Perle,[57] Sergei Prokoev, David
Raskin,[58] Nikolai Roslavets,[59] Hermann Schroeder, Alexander Scriabin, Charles Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, Fartein
Valen, Tyshawn Sorey, and Iannis Xenakis.

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See also
List of dodecaphonic and serial compositions
List of music students by teacher
List of tone rows and series

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References

[1] Antokoletz, Elliott and Susanni, Paolo (2011). Bla Bartk: A Research and Information Guide, p.258. ISBN 9781135845414.
[2] Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p.244.
[3] Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p.247.
[4] Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p.xxvii.
[5] Gagn (2012), p.30.
[6] Crutcheld, Will (December 17, 1989). "'Wozzeck' Speaks To Us by Mixing Two Musical Modes", NYTimes.com. Alban
Bergs Wozzeck was the rst atonal opera to get anywhere near standard repertory status, and it is still the only one. (Bergs
second opera, Lulu, is the only other remote contender.)"
[7] Steib, Murray (2013). Readers Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism, p.77. Routledge. ISBN 9781135942625.
George Perle, explains Bergs musical language as a great mixture of devices and techniques--some carried over from
atonal style of Wozzeck, other reecting an idiosyncratic approach to twelve-tone composition that owes relatively little to
the ideas of Schoenberg.
[8] Carpenter, Alexander (2005). Alban Berg, All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Denitive Guide to Classical Music,
p.140. Hal Leonard. ISBN 9780879308650. "...marking the near-end of the composers freely atonal period...and is
notable for the manner in which Berg combines atonal and 12-tone music in the same work with ease.
[9] Gagn (2012), p.36-7.
[10] Gagn (2012), p.38.
[11] Reed, Peter Hugh (1991). American Record Guide, Volume 54, Issue 2; Volume 54, Issues 4-6, p.41.
[12] Gagn (2012), p.57.
[13] Gagn (2012), p.58.
[14] Gagn, Nicole V. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, p.4. ISBN 9780810867659.
[15] Gagn (2012), p.72.

[16] Gagn (2012), p.90.

[17] "1947-1948", AllMusic.com. "...and his nearly atonal piano exploration on the intriguing 'The Clothed Woman'. ,
[18] Gagn (2012), p.100.
[19] Gagn (2012), p.104.
[20] Gagn (2012), p.114.
[21] Gagn (2012), p.150.
[22] Gagn (2012), p.153.
[23] Haimo, Ethan (2006). Schoenbergs Transformation of Musical Language, p.3. ISBN 9780521865425.
[24] Searle, Humphrey, ed. Stankey Sadie, Liszt, Franz, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 vols. 11:11:39.
(London: Macmillan, 1980). ISBN 0-333-23111-2.
[25] Gagn (2012), p.169.
[26] Gagn (2012), p.212.
[27] Forte, Allen (1977). The Structure of Atonal Music, p.1. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02120-2.
[28] Smith, Quentin (2010). Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling, p.7. ISBN 9781557535986. Contains typo:
refers to quartet no. 4.
[29] Forte, Allen (1973). The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
[30] Rahn, John. Analysis Two: Schoenbergs Five Pieces for Orchestra: Farben, op. 16 no. 3. In his Basic Atonal Theory,
5973. New York and London: Longman, 1980. ISBN 0-582-28117-2.
[31] Winiarz, John (2000). "Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: an Atonal Landmark", LSM Online.
[32] Brinkmann, Reinhold. 1969. Arnold Schnberg: Drei Klavierstcke Op. 11: Studien zur frhen Atonalitt bei Schnberg.
Beihefte zum Archiv fr Musikwissenschaft 7. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
[33] Forte, Allen. 1972. Sets and Nonsets in Schoenbergs Atonal Music. Perspectives of New Music 11, no. 1 (Tenth
Anniversary Issue (FallWinter): 4364.
[34] Malhomme, Florence. 1997. Les Trois pices pour piano op. 11 de Schoenberg: principes d'organisation de l'espace
musical atonal. Musurgia 4, no. 1, Dossiers d'analyse): 8495.
[35] Perle, George. 1977. Serial Composition and Atonality, fourth edition, revised. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press. ISBN 0-520-03395-7.
[36] Straus, Joseph N. 2000. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice
Hall. ISBN 0-13-014331-6.
[37] Kostka, Stefan and Payne, Dorothy (1995). Tonal Harmony, p.513. ISBN 0073000566.
[38] Palmer, John. "Orchestral Songs (4) Op. 22", AllMusic.com.
[39] Simms, Bryan R. "The Operas Erwartung and Die glckliche Hand", OxfordScholarship.com.
[40] "Robert Craft: Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2; Die glckliche Hand; Wind Quintet, Op. 26", AllMusic.com.
[41] Carpenter, Alexander. "Herzgewchse, song for soprano, celesta, harp & harmonium, Op. 20", AllMusic.com.
[42] "Die Jacobsleiter (Jacobs Ladder), oratorio", AllMusic.com.
[43] Taruskin, Richard (2008). The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays, p.369. ISBN 9780520942790.
[44] Benjamin, Thomas; Horvit, Michael; and Nelson, Robert (2008). Techniques and Materials of Music, p.214. ISBN
9780495189770. Op. 19, No. 2.
[45] Perle (1991). Serial Composition and Atonality, p.44. Sixth edition. ISBN 9780520074309.
[46] Simms, Bryan R. (1996). Music of the twentieth century: style and structure, p.191. ISBN 9780028723921. "The Rite of
Spring is atonal despite the diatonic content of its folk tunes.

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REFERENCES

[47] Young, Percy Marshall (1969). Stravinsky: Masters of Music, p.43. Benn. "...the composer of the atonal The Rite of
Spring...
[48] Gagn (2012), p.270.
[49] Perle, George (1990). The Listening Composer, p.83. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06991-9.
[50] Gagn (2012), p.12.
[51] Gagn (2012), p.290.
[52] Gagn (2012), p.7.
[53] Gagn (2012), p.37.
[54] Gagn (2012), p.152.
[55] Gagn (2012), p.97.
[56] Gagn (2012), p.116.
[57] Gagn (2012), p.205.
[58] Gagn (2012), p.98.
[59] Gagn (2012), p.228.

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