throughout the ballet Petrushka to represent the puppet and devised the chord to represent the puppet's mocking of the crowd at the Shrovetide Fair. Eric Walter White suggests and dismisses the possibility that the Petrushka chord is derived from Messiaen's "second Modes of limited transposition" (the octatonic scale) in favor of a "black key/white key bitonality" which results from, "Stravinsky's well known habit of composing at the piano." Other uses The 1979 song "Kogaion" by Romanian progressive rock band Sfinx makes use of the chord. The Petrushka chord is dominantly used in the track Above the Clouds, from the 2003 simulation game Sim City 4. See also Polychord Elektra chord Mystic chord Psalms chord Tristan chord References Chords Igor Stravinsky