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I believe that the major-and-minor key with its transpositional relations, our “twelve-semitone system,” exhibits such a case of falling behind.

From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Busoni, Ferruccio

Is there not a transpositional misprint in the colophon of the old German Life of S. Dorothea, the so-called patroness of Prussia?

From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George