Composing in the Whole Tone Scale

Hi. As something of an amateur composer, I was experimenting with the whole tone scale. I read somewhere that it's often used to harmonize augmented chords, but I thought I would attempt the bizarre and write a whole piece in it. My, was that an adventure.

The harmony is very strange

I like Debussy's Voiles Prelude no.2 book 1. I usually don't write a lot with it.

No, you're not insane. Surely there have people who have written pieces totally in an odd scale. (Chinese music was always in pentatonic, jazz in the blues scale, etc.) As long as you don't get tired of the scale you're using yourself, I don't see a problem in it. Oh, and as long as your audience doesn't get tired of it either.

For a good example of whole tone use, I suggest listening to Jennifer Higdon's "running the edgE" for two flutes and percussive piano. Interesting use of the whole tone scale in the ostinato patterns.

Can you post your piece so we can give it a listen?

Seconded.

Honestly, I love the whole-tone scale. I'm really fascinated by the major-minor possibilities, implying things but never actually stating them.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I have checked out Debussy's piece, and I think it's lovely. And way out of my league.

For those of you interested in hearing my piece, I have decided that revealing one track early can't do much harm, so below is the link. As for why it repeats, please bear in mind that this is intended as game BGM

Sounds great! (Sorry, too tired for anything more detailed.)

Thank you, guys. Gosh, you flatter me.

As a matter of fact, I hadn't listened to anyone else's work in the whole tone scale prior to writing this piece, so I didn't know how people normally go about it. As you might have noticed, the distorted guitar part (glad you liked it) is where I switched to C-minor, though I don't think it's the true minor scale.