Generalizing Messiaen’s Modes of Limited Transposition to a n-tone Equal Temperament
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Modes of limited transposition are musical modes originally conceived by the French composer Olivier Messiaen for a tempered system of 12 pitches per octave. They are defined on the base of symmetry-related criteria used to split an octave into a number of recurrent interval groups. This paper describes an algorithm to automatically compute the modes of limited transposition in a generic ntone equal temperament. After providing a pseudo-code description of the process, a Web implementation will be proposed.
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