List of pieces which use the octatonic scale

Compositions using the octatonic scale:

• Radiohead

"Just" (1995). Jonny Greenwood plays a series of OCT02 scales on the guitar during the intro (0:06-0:16) and each chorus (0:55-1:05, 1:44-1:55, 2:47-3:09)^[1]

• Béla Bartók

Harvest Song (Ara táskor) Violin Duo # 33

• Frederic Chopin

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 : (bars 130-132)

Etude in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9: (bars 28-30)

• Charles Ives

The Unanswered Question (solo trumpet part)

• Julian Cochran

Piano Sonata No. 1 (1st mov.) ^{[2][self-published source]}

Fire Dance ^[2]

Animation Suite, Tin Sentinel ^[2]

Animation Suite, Clockwork Doll ^[2]

Trio for violin, oboe and piano, Artemis (2nd mov.) ^[2]

Prelude No. 9 ^[2][3]

Mazurka No. 1 ^[2]

• Madeleine Dring

Lilliburlero Variations for Two Pianos^[4]

• Prince Edmond de Polignac

Échos de l'Orient judaïque (1879)^[5]

"Chant à la lune", incidental music to Salammbô (1886)^[6]

• Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5^[7]

• The Human Abstract

"Digital Veil" (2011)^[8]

• King Crimson

  "Red" (1974).^[9]

• Nirvana

"Oh, the Guilt" (1993) (verses)

"Blandest" (1988) (verses)

• Procol Harum

  "Whaling Stories" on Procol Harum – Live In New York (April 1971)

• Zoltán Kodály

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Mov. II (1910)^[10]

• Sergei Rachmaninoff

Trio élégiaque No. 2

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Sadko (1867)^[11][12]

• Arnold Schoenberg

Piano Piece, Op. 23, no. 3 (1923)^[13]

• Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt., bars 13-20^[7]

Piano Sonata in C major, D 840 (Schubert), 1st mvt bars 33-39

• Alexander Scriabin

Prelude Op. 74, No. 3 (1914)^[11]

Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (1912-13), melody from bar 5 onwards

• Juan Maria Solare

Octango (2005)

Transfuga

• Igor Stravinsky

Petroushka (1911)^[12][14]

The Rite of Spring (1913)^[12][14]

Les Noces (1923)^[12][15]

Symphony of Psalms (1930)^[14]

Agon, "Pas de deux" (1957)^[13]

• Kenneth Leighton

Magnificat from the Second Service, Op. 62 (1972)

• Toru Takemitsu

Distance de Fée, SJ1050 (1951)

• Die Antwoord

Fok julle Naaiers (2011). Piano line in the intro is octatonic, bass synth adds a ninth tone.

• Adi Morag

"Octabones" (1999)

• Orbital

Oolaa from the Green Album

• Suraj Synthesist Khayaal , a lil fantasy^[16][17]

• Gilad Hochman

Closer for two alto saxophones (2022)

Polarizations for solo viola (2023)

• Dream Theater

The Dark eternal night^[18]