Modes of limited transposition are musical modes or scales that fulfill specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval...

Messiaen's modes of limited transposition are strictly a scale type.) Related to the diatonic modes are the eight church modes or Gregorian modes, in which...

progressions List of chords List of musical intervals List of pitch intervals Arabian maqam Modes of limited transposition Symmetric scale Synthetic modes Tetrachord...

composer Olivier Messiaen called the whole-tone scale his first mode of limited transposition. The composer and music theorist George Perle calls the whole-tone...

was published subsequently). These exhibit Messiaen's use of his modes of limited transposition and palindromic rhythms (Messiaen called these non-retrogradable...

mode of limited transposition) is derived from the whole tone scale, with an added fourth and a natural seventh degree. It is also a combination of a...

symmetry as in Messiaen's modes of limited transposition. The notes of a scale form intervals with each of the other notes of the chord in combination...

work is in four movements and uses modes of limited transposition and complex rhythms, which are characteristic of Messiaen's compositional style. Nevertheless...

ornithology and birdcalls, and his system of modes of limited transposition. Technique de mon langage musical ("The technique of my musical language"). Paris: Leduc...

of Olivier Messiaen's seventh mode of limited transposition; it has six transpositions, like the tritone, and five modes (the same pitch classes with C...