List of quarter tone pieces
List of quarter tone pieces
A selection of compositions using
quarter tones:
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- Concert Variations for solo euphonium; "each variation is based on different performance techniques of the instrument, including quarter-tones"
- Çogluotobüsisletmesi for four pianos. "in which four of the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale are tuned a quarter tone flat"
- ...until' version 7 for guitar (1980).
- Concerto for Quarter Tone Piano and Quarter Tone Strings (1930)
- 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 fourth movement Presto contains quarter-tones, but they are not "structural features." This movement also calls for third-tones.
- Violin Concerto no. 2; the cadenza in the final movement requires the use of quarter-tones, but only as an effect.
- Blurred Lines for violin and harpsichord (1997)
- Quarter-Tone Quartet, Op. 20.
- Chamber Concerto, for violin, piano, and 13 winds.
- E vó (1972).
- Twelve Microtonal Etudes: "24 Notes: Moderato" (1980).
- Piano Quintet No. 1 (1923); the first movement features use of quarter-tones in the string parts.
- Prelude (2002), for two pianos tuned one quarter-tone apart.
- Two pieces for string quartet (2002–2003); sporadic quarter-tone alterations.
- Chemins fermés (2003), for 4 violins, cello and double-bass; extensive use of quarter-tone alterations (in the Iannis Xenakis tradition).
- Etude (2013), for the dissonArt ensemble; use of quarter-tone alterations in string and wind writing.
- Polyphonie X (1951).
- Le visage nuptial (1946).