Musical Lipograms: a non-comprehensive catalogue of works or movements that lack only one pitch class

(I'm also maintaining a list of works that omit more than one pitch class, but this interests me more at the moment.)

Please contact me about other works or if you find mistakes.



without C


Haydn: String Quartet op 17 no 1 mvt 4
Beethoven: op. 131 mvt 3
Gyorgy Ligeti: Musica ricercata no 10



without C#/D♭


Haydn: String Quartet op 1 no 5 mvt 1
Mozart: Symphony 39 mvt 3
Brahms: Waltz op 39 no 13
Chopin: Prelude op 28 no 23
Chopin: Waltz in E-flat op posthumous



without D


Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni, La primavera, mvt 1



without D#/E♭


Josquin: Missa pange lingua
Frescobaldi: Canzoni da sonare no 16
J.S. Bach: BWV 539, Prelude
Scarlatti: Sonata k78
Haydn: String Quartet op 1 no 6 mvt 2
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance no 11



without E


Mozart: Divertimento k 289 mvt 3
Franz Schubert: Du bist die Ruh



without F


Rameau: Tambourin
Mozart: Symphony 35, mvt 3
Schumann: Kinderszenen no 12
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance no 10



without F#/G♭


Haydn: String Quartet op 33 no 2 mvt 2
Mozart: Violin Sonata k378 mvt 2



without G


Haydn: Allegretto con variatzione Hob.XVII:A3
J. Brahms: Waltz op 39 no 6



without G#/A♭


Josquin: Missa Ave Maris Stella
Obrecht: Missa Adieu mes amours
Obrecht: Missa Ave regina celorum
Monteverdi: Baci soavi (Book 1 no 5)
Frescobaldi: Canzoni da sonare no 10
Haydn: Symphony 89 mvt 3
Beethoven: Symphony 6, mvt 3
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance no 1



without A


Debussy: Prelude book 1 no 8



without A#/B♭


Monteverdi: Io mi son giovinetta (Book 4 no 12)
J.S. Bach: B minor Mass, Patrem omnipotentem
Franz Schubert: Winterreise 6. Wasserflut
Chopin: Mazurka op 68 no 2
Schumann: op 126 no 1



without B


Scarlatti: Sonata k32
Scarlatti: Sonata k42
Scarlatti: Sonata k361
Scarlatti: Sonata k411
Haydn: String quartet op 1 no 1 mvt 2
Mendelssohn: op 72 no 2
Brahms: Waltz op 39 no 8
Debussy: Prelude book 2 no 5