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In the twentieth century, composers have drawn musical material from other
symmetrical collections, such as the whole tone (whose scale is made up entirely of consecutive
whole steps) and the octatonic (whose scale contains alternating whole and half steps). Some
composers associated with symmetrical collections include Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky,
Béla Bartók, and Olivier Messiaen. Read more about these composers and their music in Chapter
30.
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