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...

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...

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melodically, he employed a system he called modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from the systems of material his early compositions and improvisations...

Another of his favorite techniques, modes of limited transposition, are also used. The movements are: "Apparition du Christ glorieux" (Apparition of the Glorious...

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...

correspond. The notion of rhythmic canon transfers Messiaen's idea of mode of limited transposition from the domain of pitch to the domain of time: Messiaen considered...

be his first work of any value. The compositions are based on Messiaen's modes of limited transposition, and betrays an influence of Debussy's preludes...

The discography of English electronic music band Depeche Mode consists of 15 studio albums, seven live albums, 10 compilation albums, 16 box sets and...

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

recording that one of the characters might have made. Many of Greenwood's compositions are microtonal. He often uses modes of limited transposition, particularly...

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...

based on the circle of fifths, whereas Olivier Messiaen invented a new method of composition (the modes of limited transposition) specifically to render...

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...

octatonic scale[specify], one of Messiaen's modes of limited transposition. To avoid tonal monotony, Messiaen transposes the mode every few measures. Despite...

Musical Language developed what he called modes of limited transposition which displayed a special type of symmetry and which he used in numerous compositions...

the hermit thrush, the red-whiskered bulbul and the wood thrush. Decî-Tâlas of ancient India, Cârngadeva system: Nihcankalîla, Gajalîla, Laksmîca, Caccarî...

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

by a variety of transposition and inversion operations: They are each closed under transpositions by 3, 6, or 9 semitones. A transposition by 1, 4, 7,...

non-retrogradable rhythms), chords of resonance, stylized birdsong, and his unique modes of limited transpositions. According to Messiaen's "author's...

Pandiatonicism is a musical technique of using the diatonic (as opposed to the chromatic) scale without the limitations of functional tonality. Music using...

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...

summer of 1936, setting his own poems. He specifically called for a grand soprano dramatique (great dramatic soprano), probably with the voice of Marcelle...

Written from 1929 through 1930; it is inspired by the theology of his Catholic faith. In autumn of 1929, Messiaen acquainted himself with Charles Quef, then-titular-organist...

A Study in Parsimony, Contextual Transformation, and Modes of Limited Transposition". Journal of Music Theory. 42 (2): 241–263. doi:10.2307/843877. JSTOR 843877...

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Chants de Terre et de Ciel (Songs of Earth and Heaven) is a song cycle in six movements for soprano and piano by Olivier Messiaen, on text by the composer...

Messiaen's modes of limited transposition to appear with some frequency. In particular, the use of the octatonic, (mode II, or the 8–28 collection), and mode VI...

organized by the City of Paris in homage to the French composer Olivier Messiaen. The first edition took place in 2000. List of classical music competitions...