This is a list of notable musical works which use the whole tone scale.
Béla Bartók
Cantata Profana, b. 186–187
Concerto for Orchestra, fifth movement, b. 484
String Quartet No. 1, end of movement 3
String Quartet No. 4, first movement, b. 157–160
String Quartet No. 5 "The sequence of tonalities of the single sections [of the sonata form] produce the whole-tone scale". "In the first movement of the Fifth String Quartet...the tonalities of the individual sections form a complete whole-tone scale (B–C–D–E–F–G–B)." Mikrokosmos, Volume V, No.136 "Whole-Tone Scales"
Alban Berg
Violin Concerto
"Nacht" from Seven Early Songs
Hector Berlioz
Francs-Juges Overture
Ferruccio Busoni
An die Jugend for piano, the right hand part of the "Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio" is based on the whole tone scale.
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude No. 19, mm. 43–44, in the bass, "while the melody moves down chromatically"
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
The Stone Guest, passage from act 3
Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No. 3, first movement, horns, between rehearsals P and Q
Claude Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Children's Corner
Images for piano, No. 1
Jeux
La mer
Pelléas et Mélisande, act 4 scene 2
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, b. 32–33, 35–36
Voiles from Préludes, Book 1
Edward Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
Blair Fairchild
A Baghdad Lover, nine songs for bass and piano, Op. 25 (1911)
Mikhail Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila, near the end of the overture, in the finale to act 1, and in the act 4 chorus "Pogibnet! Pogibnet!"
The Human Abstract
"Holographic Sight"
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta (1926)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
"Allegro burlesco" from the Sonatina exotique for piano
King Crimson
"Fracture" One More Red Nightmare
Kraftwerk
"Spacelab" (from The Man-Machine)
Franz Liszt
Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", for organ
Réminiscences de Don Juan
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5, end of fifth movement, b. 784-787
Das Lied von der Erde, sixth movement, b. 454-459
Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time (movement 6, "Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets", cello part)
Lee Morgan
"Our Man Higgins"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Musical Joke
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly
Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'Eau, page 1
Vladimir Rebikov
Une fête, No. 6
Les rêves
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Piano Concerto, 1882, Allegro
Arnold Schoenberg
"Am Wegrand", Op. 6, no. 6
Chamber Symphony No. 1
"Jesus bettelt", Op. 2, no. 2
Pelleas und Melisande
String Quartet No. 1
Franz Schubert
"Sanctus" from the Mass No. 6 in E major, D. 950
Sparks
"In the Future" from the album Indiscreet
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Montag aus Licht, act 1, scene 6, "Das große Geweine", b. 879–881
Igor Stravinsky
L'Histoire du soldat
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Chôros No. 2
String Quartet No. 3, second movement (Molto Vivo)
Stevie Wonder
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (introduction)