List of quarter tone pieces
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A selection of compositions using quarter tone
Quarter tone
A quarter tone , is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale, an interval about half as wide as a semitone, which is half a whole tone....

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  • Aphex Twin
    Aphex Twin
    Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
-Formatting notes:The cassette version of the album featured six songs on each side, barring side three, which contained seven . The vinyl version featured four songs on each side, excluding side four, which contained five ....

(1994); the track "02 [radiator]" features a quarter tone tuning in the basso ostinato.

  • Jan Bach
    Jan Bach
    Jan Bach is an American composer. He taught at the University of Tampa from 1965 to 1966 and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois from 1966 to 2002. His primary performing instrument is the horn, and he is especially renowned for his horn pieces and especially well-known among...

Concert Variations for solo euphonium
Euphonium
The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...

; the euphoniumist frequently creates quarter tones by using alternate "out of tune" valve combinations and subtle embouchure adjustments.

  • Clarence Barlow
    Clarence Barlow
    Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...

Çoǧluotobüsişletmesi 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.

  • Hans Barth
Concerto for Quarter Tone Piano and Quarter Tone Strings (1930)

  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók
    Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

String Quartet No. 6
String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)
The String Quartet No. 6 by Béla Bartók was written from August to November, 1939 in Budapest.The work is in four movements:#Mesto - Vivace#Mesto - Marcia#Mesto - Burletta#Mesto - Molto tranquillo...

; the third movement Burletta contains quarter-tone tuning used for parodistic effect. Quarter tones are also used in Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin
The Miraculous Mandarin
The Miraculous Mandarin or The Wonderful Mandarin Op. 19, Sz. 73 , is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918–1924, and based on the story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered November 27, 1926 in Cologne, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned...

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Sonata for Solo Violin
Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)
The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117, BB 124, is a sonata for unaccompanied violin composed by Béla Bartók. It was premiered by Yehudi Menuhin, to whom it was dedicated, in New York on 26 November, 1944.-Composition:...

; the fourth movement Presto contains quarter-tones, but they are not "structural features." This movement also calls for third-tones.
Violin Concerto no. 2
Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely, who requested the composition in 1936, and is a prime example of verbunkos style....

; the cadenza in the final movement requires the use of quarter-tones, but only as an effect.

  • Alban Berg
    Alban Berg
    Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...

Chamber Concerto
Kammerkonzert
The Kammerkonzert für Klavier und Geige mit 13 Bläsern is a piece of chamber music composed by Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1923 and 1925. The short score was completed on 9 February 1925; the full score was finished on 23 July 1925...

, for violin, piano, and 13 winds.

  • Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

E vó (1972).

  • Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...

Piano Quintet No. 1 (1923); the first movement features use of quarter-tones in the string parts.

  • Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

Le visage nuptial (1946).

  • Julian Carrillo
    Julián Carrillo
    Julián Carrillo Trujillo was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed "The Thirteenth Sound" .-Biography:...

Capricho for piano in quarter-tones (1959)
Capricho for solo viola in quarter-tones (1926)
Casi-sonatas 1-6 for solo violin, viola or cello in quarter-tones (c.1960s)
Concertino in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones for violin, cello and harp with orchestra (1926)
Concerto for 1/4-tone and 1/8-tone cello and orchestra (1958)
Concerto No. 1 for quarter-tone violin and orchestra (1963)
Concerto No. 2 for quarter-tone violin and orchestra (1964)
Mass for Pope John XXIII for male chorus in quarter-tones (1920s)
Preludio a Cristobol Colón for vocalizing soprano, octavina, flute, harp, violin, and guitar (1922)
Serenata for cello in quarter-tones with English horn, harp, and string quartet (1927)
70 estudios for solo violin in quarter-tones (c. 1927?) {also for solo viola, cello, or double-bass}
Sonata for solo guitar in quarter-tones (c.1924)
Sonata (Amanecer en Berlin 13) for solo harp in quarter-tones (1931)
Sonata casi fantasia for violin, violoncello and guitar in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones (1925)
String Quartet in quarter-tones (c.1924) {There are also 7 others with some using smaller intervals.}
Suite for solo guitar in quarter-tones (1960)
3 estudios en forma de sonatina for solo violin in quarter-tones (1927)
Symphony No. 1 (Colombia) for orchestra in quarter-tones (c.1924)
Symphony No. 2 (Colombia) for orchestra in quarter-tones (1926)

  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

Vitebsk
Vitebsk
Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...

(1928).

  • John Corigliano
    John Corigliano
    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

Chiaroscuro for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (1997)
Piece for Two Quarter-Tone Pianos

  • Mildred Couper
    Mildred Couper
    Mildred Couper , prominent American composer and pianist, was one of the first musicians to experiment with quarter-tone music. She was based in Santa Barbara, California, but her music and influence were felt around the world...

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)

  • John Diercks
    John Diercks
    John Diercks was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1927. He holds degrees in composition from Oberlin, the Eastman School, and the University of Rochester . His composition teachers included Howard Hanson and Alan Hovhaness. For Asian music and dance he studied with Dorothy Kahananui and Halla...

Reminiscences, 1971 for two pianos, one tuned a quarter-tone lower.

  • John Eaton
    John Eaton (composer)
    John Charles Eaton is an American composer , MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American composer (Anon. [n.d.]; Morgan 2001), MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of...

Sonority Movement, for flute and nine harps.

  • Danny Elfman
    Danny Elfman
    Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...

Soundtrack score for A Simple Plan features quarter-tones

  • Bjørn Fongaard
    Bjørn Fongaard
    Bjørn Fongaard was a Norwegian composer, guitarist, and teacher. In addition to being concerned with microtonal and electronic music, he was perhaps the first to use the prepared guitar....

Galaxe [Galaxy] (For 3 Quarter-Tone Guitars), Opus 46.

  • Carlo Forlivesi
    Carlo Forlivesi
    Carlo Forlivesi is an Italian composer, performer and researcher.Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome...

Lux Subtilissima (2006), "Consort Musicke" for string quartet (1/4 and 1/6 tones are used)
En la soledat i el silenci (2007), for hyper-tempered koto and guitar

  • Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring....

Soundtrack score for Alien
Alien (film)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which...

features quarter-tones

  • Sofia Gubaidulina
    Sofia Gubaidulina
    Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...

Quaternion for cello quartet, two of the cellos are tuned down a quarter tone
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion is a piece written by Sofia Gubaidulina in 1994 dedicated to Pierre-Yves Artaud.The instruments are divided into two sections, one of which is tuned a quarter-tone lower than the other...

, the strings are divided into two sections, one of which is tuned a quarter-tone lower than the other.
Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten for flute, harp, and viola includes a quarter-sharp and three-quarter-sharp at one point in the piece.
In Erwartung for quartet of saxophones and six percussionists includes quarter-tone and three-quarter tone accidentals in saxophone parts.
Hommage à T. S. Eliot, microintervals are used in the parts of bassoon and clarinet

  • Sampo Haapamäki
Velinikka, concerto for quarter-tone accordion (2008)

  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer of spectral music.He grew up in Tschagguns and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz...

Hommage à Steve Reich, for piano player on two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (1983)
Hommage à György Ligeti, for piano player on two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (1985)

  • Alois Hába
    Alois Hába
    Alois Hába was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones....

Suite for string orchestra (1917)
Fantasy for violin solo in Quarter-tone System
Fantasy for violin & quarter-tone piano, Op. 21
Matka
Mother (opera)
Mother, op. 35, is a quarter-tone opera in ten scenes by Czech composer Alois Hába. It was completed in 1929 on the composer's own libretto, its plot is drawn from author's native Valašsko...

(The Mother), opera in quarter-tones for soloists, chorus, and orchestra (1930)
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 system, Op. 93

  • Fromental Halévy
    Fromental Halévy
    Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy , was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.-Early career:...

Prométhée enchaîné (1849)

  • Lejaren Hiller
    Lejaren Hiller
    Lejaren Arthur Hiller was an American composer. In 1957 he collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. It was his fourth string quartet. In 1958 he founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

String Quarter No. 5 (1962).

  • Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

O Lord, Bless Thy Mountains, Op. 276, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart (1974)

  • Charles Ives
    Charles Ives
    Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

Quarter-Tone Pieces (3), for two pianos, one tuned a quarter-tone sharp, S. 128 (K. 3C3) (1923-1924)

  • Veli Kujala
Hyperchromatic Counterpoint for quarter-tone accordion and 5.0 surround tape (2006-2009)

  • Michael A. Levine
    Michael A. Levine
    Michael A. Levine is an American composer born on 20 February 1964 in Tokyo, Japan, and currently based in Los Angeles.-Biography:His Concerto for Pedal Steel Guitar and Orchestra is believed to be the first concerto ever written for the pedal steel guitar...

"Divination By Mirrors for Saw and Strings
Divination By Mirrors for Saw and Strings
A selection of compositions using quarter tones:*Michael A. Levine...

" (1998). Two string groups tuned a quarter-step apart with a musical saw soloist playing in both pitch universes.

  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

Clocks and Clouds for 12-voiced women's choir and orchestra.
Quartet No. 2 for strings.
Ramifications for 12 solo strings (1968-69), divided into two groups tuned a quarter-tone apart.
Sonata for Solo Viola, includes 1/4, 1/6, and 1/8 tones.

  • Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

Soundtrack score for Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark (film)
Wait Until Dark is a suspense-thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for some drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem...

(1967) features extensive use of quarter-tones including two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart
The Night Visitor
The Night Visitor
The Night Visitor is a 1971 Swedish psychological thriller film, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir, and directed by Laslo Benedek....


  • Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

Deux monodies en quarts de ton (1938).

  • Frank J. Oteri
    Frank J. Oteri
    Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...

Circles Mostly in Wood, a quarter-tone wind quintet in five movements (2002)
Fair and Balanced, a quarter-tone saxophone quartet in four short movements (2004)

  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

Emanations (Emanacje, 1959) for two string orchestras tuned a semitone apart
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima is a musical composition for 52 string instruments, composed in 1960 by Krzysztof Penderecki , which took third prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition in Katowice in 1960...

, for string orchestra, frequently makes use of quarter tones.
Symphony No. 1 (1973), heavily quarter-tone, including clusters.

  • Leonard Rosenman
    Leonard Rosenman
    Leonard Rosenman was an American film, television and concert composer.-Life and career:Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the Army Air Forces in World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley...

Soundtrack score for Sybil (1976) features quarter-tones

  • Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...

Piano Quintet
Piano quintet
In European classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly piano, two violins, viola, and cello . Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Antonín Dvořák...


  • Richard Stein
Zwei Konzertstücke, Op. 26, 1906

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

Pietà, for soprano, quarter-tone flugelhorn, and electronic music, from the opera Dienstag aus Licht
Dienstag aus Licht
Dienstag aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting and two acts, with a farewell, and was the fourth of seven to be completed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche...

Schlagquartett, for piano and 3 x 2 timpani (1952)

  • Toufic Succar
Prélude
Suite, Op. 56, No. 1 Mode Bayati: mijana-errêdde-hida-ala'mayyem-oumi thaddare ya Zêna-'al yadi
Suite, Op. 56, No. 2 Mode Huzam: marmar zamani-al'of mach'al-ya hnayyina-a'rrozana-ya laylu'ssabi-meshta'erja'adday'a
Suite, Op. 59, No. 1 Mode Iraqi: takassim-remmanâ ya habibi-Idi widak'al wadi-ah ya asmar el lawn-bouzzoulof-ya ghzayel
Remmanâk yâ habîbi
Jamlo
Sâfar Zamâni
Idi w'iadk 'al wadi
Ala 'mayyam
Yal laylous'sabi
Bellazi askar
Suite populaire libanaise en ré rast, Op. 17, for string quartet
Fantaisie orientale en ☺ré saba, Op. 52. for cello
Suite en la bayali, Op. 80, for solo violin
Quatre morceaux, for voice and piano, Op. 44

  • Toru Takemitsu
    Toru Takemitsu
    was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...

Bryce (1976).

  • Tui St. George Tucker
    Tui St. George Tucker
    Tui St. George Tucker was an American composer and recorder player....

The Angelus (words by Dennis Corbett) for baritone & quartertone piano or keyboard
Hot Cross Buns for quarter-tone pianos
Little Pieces for quarter-tone pianos
Quartertone Carol for high voice with alto, tenor, and bass recorders
Quartertone Lullabies 1 and 2 for alto, tenor, and bass recorder
Quartertone Lullaby 3 (Midnight Microtone) for alto recorder, flute, and clarinet
Quartertone Recorder Duets
Romanza for solo recorder.
Sarabande: Dance for Miriam Cooper, for microtonal harpsichord (1986)
Sonata No. 1 for Solo Recorder ("The Bullfinch").
Vigils 1 and 2 for quarter-tone organ

  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky
Quatre fragments, for 2 pianos in quarter tones (2nd version), Op. 5 (1918)
Chant douloureux et étude, for violin & piano, Op. 6 (1918)
Méditation sur deux thèmes de la Journée de l'existence, for cello & piano, Op. 7 (1918-1919)
L'Évangile Rouge, cycle for voice & 2 pianos in quarter tones (2nd version), Op. 8 (1918-1920)
Chants sur Nietzsche (2), for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 9 (1923)
Variations sur la note Do, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 10 (1918-1920)
String Quarter No. 1 (1924)
Chant nocturne, for violin & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 11 (1927)
Dithyrambe, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 12 (1923-1924, revised vers. by Bruce Mather, 1991)
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 13 (1923-1924)
Chœurs (2, words by A. Pomorsky), for mixed choir, 4 pianos in quarter tones & percussions, Op. 14 (1926)
Prélude et fugue sur un chant de l'Évangile rouge, for quartertone piano, version for string quartet (lost), Op. 15 (1927)
Prélude et danse, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 16 (1926)
Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, symphonie, for 4 pianos in quarter tones (sketches for orchestration in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), Op. 17 (1929-1930, revised 1936, Ed. L'Oiseau-Lyre)
String Quartet No 2, Op. 18 (1930-1931)
Études de concert(2), for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 19 (1931)
Étude en forme de scherzo, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 20 (1931)
String Quarter No. 2 (1931)
Prélude et fugue, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 21 (1932)
Pièces (2), for 2 pianos in quarter tones, without Op. (1934)
Premier fragment symphonique, for 4 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 23a; for orchestra, Op. 23c (1934, orch. vers. 1967)
Deuxième fragment symphonique, for 4 pianos in quarter tones, timpani & percussions, Op. 24 (1937)
Poème, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, without Op. (1937)
Linnite, pantomime in 1 act & 5 scenes, for 3 voices & 4 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 25 (1937)
Préludes dans tous les tons de l'échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons (24), for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 22 (1934, rev. 1960)
À Richard Wagner, for baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 26 (1934)
Acte chorégraphique, for bass-baritone, mixed choir, 4 pianos in quarter tones, percussions & ad. lib. instruments (viola, clarinet in C & balalaika), Op. 27 (1937-1940)
Cosmos, for 4 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 28 (1939-1940)
Chants russes (2), for bass-baritone & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 29 (1940-1941)
Troisième fragment symphonique, for 4 pianos in quarter tones & ad. lib. percussions, Op. 31 (1946)
Fugues (2), for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 32 (1951)
Variations sans thème et conclusion (5), for orchestra, Op. 33 (1951-1952)
Sonate en un mouvement, for viola & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 34 (1945-1959)
Transparence I, for Onde Martenot & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 35 (1953)
Quatrième fragment symphonique, for 4 Ondes Martenot & 4 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 38c (1956)
Polyphonies spatiales, for piano, harmonium, Ondes Martenot, percussion & string orchestra, Op. 39 (1956)
Études sur les densités et les volumes, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 39b (1956)
Dialogue à deux, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 41 (1958-1973)
Dialogue, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, 8 hands, without Op. (1959)
Composition en quarts de ton for string quartet Op. 43 (1960)
Études sur les mouvements rotatoires, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, 8 hands, Op. 45a; for chamber orchestra, Op. 45c (1961)
Composition II, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 46b (1960)
Transparence II, for Onde Martenot & 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 47 (1962-1963)
Intégrations, for 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. 49 (1962)
L'Éternel Étranger, opera, for voices, mixed choir, 4 pianos in quarter tones, percussions and orchestra (unfinished orchestration), Op. 50 (1940-1960)
Symphonie en un mouvement, for orchestra, Op. 51b (1969)
Composition, for Ondes Martenot quartet, Op. 52 (no date)
String Trio, Op. 53 (1979, unfinished, completed by Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....

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Trauergesang, Epigrammen, Ein Stück, for quartertone piano, without Op. (undated, found by M. Smolka in Alois Hába's archives in 1992)

  • Eugène Ysaÿe
    Eugène Ysaÿe
    Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 (1924), Nos 3 & 5
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