The composer Olivier Messiaen called the whole tone scale his first mode of limited transposition.

He called these scales "modes of limited transposition".

Any scale having 12 different transpositions is not a mode of limited transposition.

This is not so of the modes of limited transposition, which can be modally shifted only a limited number of times.

Any scale having the same number of modes as notes is not a mode of limited transposition.

Removing alternate notes creates a new truncated mode of limited transposition.

Removing two notes for every one kept creates a new truncated mode of limited transposition.

Keeping two notes for every one removed creates another truncated mode of limited transposition.

Modes of limited transposition are a kind of musical scale.

Messiaen used modes which he called modes of limited transposition.