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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 (B♭–C–D–E–F♯–G♯–B♭)."
* 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
* Claude Debussy
* Chansons de Bilitis
* Children's Corner
* Images for piano, No. 1
* Jeux
* La mer
* Pelléas et Mélisande, act 4 scene 2
* Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, b. 32–33, 35–36
* Voiles from Préludes, Book 1
* Edward Elgar
* The Dream of Gerontius
* Blair Fairchild
* A Baghdad Lover, nine songs for bass and piano, Op. 25 (1911)
* Mikhail Glinka
* Ruslan and Lyudmila, near the end of the overture, in the finale to act 1, and in the act 4 chorus "Pogibnet! Pogibnet!"
* The Human Abstract
* "Holographic Sight"
* Leoš Janáček
* Sinfonietta (1926)
* Sigfrid Karg-Elert
* "Allegro burlesco" from the Sonatina exotique for piano
* King Crimson
* "Fracture"
* One More Red Nightmare
* Kraftwerk
* "Spacelab" (from The Man-Machine)
* Franz Liszt
* Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", for organ
* Réminiscences de Don Juan
* Olivier Messiaen
* Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets", cello part)
* Lee Morgan
* "Our Man Higgins"
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* A Musical Joke
* Giacomo Puccini
* Madama Butterfly
* Maurice Ravel
* Jeux d'Eau, page 1
* Vladimir Rebikov
* Une fête, No. 6
* Les rêves
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
* Piano Concerto, 1882, Allegro
* Arnold Schoenberg
* "Am Wegrand", Op. 6, no. 6
* Chamber Symphony No. 1
* "Jesus bettelt", Op. 2, no. 2
* Pelleas und Melisande
* String Quartet No. 1
* Franz Schubert
* "Sanctus" from the Mass No. 6 in E♭ major, D. 950
* Sparks
* "In the Future" from the album Indiscreet
* Karlheinz Stockhausen
* Montag aus Licht, act 1, scene 6, "Das große Geweine", b. 879–881
* Igor Stravinsky
* L'Histoire du soldat
* Heitor Villa-Lobos
* Chôros No. 2
* String Quartet No. 3, second movement (Molto Vivo)
* Stevie Wonder
* "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (introduction)
* Joe Hisaishi
* "Les Aventuriers" from Piano Stories II – The Wind of Life, 1996 (en)
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