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Modes of limited transposition
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Seven modes identified by Olivier Messiaen which "may be transposed by a semitone only a limited number of times after which the original set of notes reappears" (New Gove). Some scholars postulate that these harmonic structures were used before Messiaen identified them (see Donald Street, "The Modes of Limited Transposition," Musical Times vol. 117, no. 1604 (October 1976): 819-823)
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Harmony