Limited Transposition
   

Limited Transposition

Index

Perfectly even chords and scales are limited in their voice leading possibilities partly because they have a limited number of transpositions. The Limited Transposition index lists all possible modes of limited transposition for 12-TET. More 

 

Examples of perfectly even chords and scales are the diminished seventh, augmented triad, and hexatonic whole-tone scale.

There are three transpositions of the diminished seventh chord, not twelve: C dim 7 = E dim 7 = F# dim 7 = A dim 7 (one), D dim 7 = ... (two), D dim 7 = ... (three).

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There are only four different augmented triads: C Aug = E Aug = A Aug (one), D Aug = ... (two), D Aug = ... (three), Eb Aug = ... (four).

See Grouping Clocks for more.

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