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

B Béla Bartók Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20Antokoletz, Elliott and Susanni, Paolo (2011). Béla Bartók: A Research and Information Guide, p. 258. . Three Etudes for Piano, Op. 18Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p. 244.Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p. 247. First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1921)Antokoletz and Susanni (2011), p. xxvii. Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1922) John J. Becker Symphonia brevis (1929) Concerto arabesque (1930) Alban Berg LuluCrutchfield, Will (December 17, 1989). "Wozzeck Speaks to Us by Mixing Two Musical Modes", The New York Times. "Alban Berg's Wozzeck was the first atonal opera to get anywhere near standard repertory status, and it is still the only one. (Berg's second opera, Lulu, is the only other remote contender.)"Steib, Murray (2013). Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism, p. 77. Routledge. . George Perle, "explains Berg's musical language as a great mixture of devices and techniques—some carried over from atonal style of Wozzeck, other reflecting an idiosyncratic approach to twelve-tone composition that owes relatively little to the ideas of Schoenberg." Wozzeck Chamber Concerto (1925)Carpenter, Alexander (2005). "Alban Berg", All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music, p.140. Hal Leonard. . "...marking the near-end of the composer's freely atonal period...and is notable for the manner in which Berg combines atonal and 12-tone music in the same work with ease." Johanna Beyer Clusters (1936) Chester Biscardi At the Still Point (1977) Henry Brant Ghost Nets (1988)Reed, Peter Hugh (1991). American Record Guide, vol, 54, issue 2; vol. 54, issues 4-6, p. 41.

C Julián Carrillo Symphony No. 3 (1940) Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 1 (1950) Ruth Crawford Seeger Nine preludes for piano (1925–28) Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930) George Crumb Echoes of Time and the River (1967) Black Angels (1970) Ancient Voices of Children (1970) Makrokosmos (1972-1979) A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 (1980)

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

E Duke Ellington The Clothed Woman (1947)"1947-1948", AllMusic.com. "...and his nearly atonal piano exploration on the intriguing 'The Clothed Woman'." ,

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

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

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

L Franz Liszt Album-Leaf 'Prélude omnitonique', S.166e Bagatelle sans tonalité (1885), S.216aSearle, Humphrey, ed. Stankey Sadie, "Liszt, Franz", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 vols. 11:11:39. (London: Macmillan, 1980). .

M Nicholas Maw Essay (1961) Scenes and Arias (1962)

P Zoltan Paulinyi LUME 1 + 2 for solo viola pomposa and 2 orchestras (2018) Biblioteca (alias Library): chamber opera (2011) Preço do Perdão: chamber opera (2012) Henri Pousseur Exercices (1956) Krzysztof Penderecki Emanationem Partita per harpsichord

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

S Arnold Schoenberg George Lieder [The Book of the Hanging Gardens] (1909), Op. 15/1Forte, Allen (1977). The Structure of Atonal Music, p. 1. Yale University Press. . Erwartung (1909), Op. 17Haimo, Ethan (2006). Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language, p. 3. . String Quartet No. 2 (1907-1908), Op. 10, last movementSmith, Quentin (2010). Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling, p. 7. . Contains typo: refers to quartet no. 4. Five Pieces for Orchestra (Fünf Orchesterstücke) (1909), Op. 16Forte, Allen (1973). The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.Rahn, John. "Analysis Two: Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra: Farben, Op. 16, no. 3". In his Basic Atonal Theory, 59–73. New York and London: Longman, 1980. . Pierrot lunaire (1912), Op. 21Winiarz, John (2000). "Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: an Atonal Landmark", LSM Online. Drei Klavierstücke (1909), Op. 11Brinkmann, Reinhold. 1969. Arnold Schönberg: Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11: Studien zur frühen Atonalität bei Schönberg. Supplement to the Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 7. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.Forte, Allen. 1972. "Sets and Nonsets in Schoenberg's Atonal Music". Perspectives of New Music 11, no. 1 (Tenth Anniversary Issue (Fall–Winter): 43–64.Malhomme, Florence. 1997. "Les Trois pièces pour piano op. 11 de Schoenberg: principes d'organisation de l'espace musical atonal". Musurgia 4, no. 1, Dossiers d'analyse): 84–95.Perle, George. 1977. Serial Composition and Atonality, fourth edition, revised. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. .Straus, Joseph N. 2000. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. .Kostka, Stefan and Payne, Dorothy (1995). Tonal Harmony, p. 513. . Four Orchestral Songs (1916), Op. 22Palmer, John. "Orchestral Songs (4) Op. 22", AllMusic.com. Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18Simms, Bryan R. "The Operas Erwartung and Die glückliche Hand", OxfordScholarship.com."Robert Craft: Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2; Die glückliche Hand; Wind Quintet, Op. 26", AllMusic.com. Herzgewächse (1911), Op. 20Carpenter, Alexander. "Herzgewächse, song for soprano, celesta, harp & harmonium, Op. 20", AllMusic.com. Die Jakobsleiter"Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio", AllMusic.com. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke (1913), Op. 19Taruskin, Richard (2008). The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays, p. 369. .Benjamin, Thomas; Horvit, Michael; and Nelson, Robert (2008). Techniques and Materials of Music, p. 214. . Op. 19, No. 2. Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23George Perle (1991). Serial Composition and Atonality, p. 44. Sixth edition. . Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (1913)Simms, Bryan R. (1996). Music of the twentieth century: style and structure, p. 191. . "The Rite of Spring is atonal despite the diatonic content of its folk tunes."Young, Percy Marshall (1969). Stravinsky: Masters of Music, p. 43. Benn. "...the composer of the atonal The Rite of Spring..."

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

V Edgard Varèse Density 21.5 (1936)Perle, George (1990). The Listening Composer, p. 83. University of California Press. . Offrandes (1922) Intégrales (1925) Arcana (1927) Déserts (1954)

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

Other composers Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies, Jacob Druckman, Barbara Kolb, Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough, Alexander Goehr, Lou Harrison, Mårten Hagström, Paul Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, George Perle, Sergei Prokofiev, David Raksin, Nikolai Roslavets, Hermann Schroeder, Alexander Scriabin, Charles Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, Fartein Valen, Tyshawn Sorey, and Iannis Xenakis.

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

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