Polymodality |

from the Greek polus – many and lat. modus – mode

The term of O. Messiaen (1944), denoting a type of polymode, in which the so-called modes of limited transposition are simultaneously combined (see Symmetric modes). Example P.:

O. Messiaen. “Twenty Views of the Baby Jesus”, No 5.

Literature: Messiaen O., Technique de mon langage musical, P., 1944.

Yu. H. Kholopov