List of pieces which use the whole tone scale

• The Human Abstract

Digital Veil(song)

• Béla Bartók

String Quartet No. 5

• Dream Theater

Overture 1928

• Alban Berg

Violin Concerto

Nacht from "Seven Early Songs"

• Ferruccio Busoni

An die Jugend for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale.

• Claude Debussy

Voiles from Preludes, Book 1

• King Crimson

Fracture

Red

One More Red Nightmare

• Kraftwerk

Spacelab (from The Man-Machine)

• Liars

"Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris With Esg"

• Olivier Messiaen

Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets")

• Mirrors and Copulation

"I Took Care of my Parents"

• Maurice Ravel

"Jeux d'Eau"

• st. vincent

"The Strangers"

• Stevie Wonder

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (third and fourth bar of introduction)

• Garbage

"Milk" (Descending synthesizer riff at intro, outro, and between refrains. The riff has the following basic chord progression: E – D – C – A# – G# – F# – B (– E in the end as a cadence)

See also

• Whole tone scale
• Impressionist music