  The lowest eigenmodes of the Dirac operator are related to the dynamical
breaking of the chiral symmetry in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). In our work we
construct quark propagators which exclude a varying number of the lowest Dirac
eigenmodes and study the influence thereof on meson correlators and the meson
spectrum. That procedure partially restores the chiral symmetry (in the valence
sector) and we observe degeneracies in the spectrum while confinement seems not
to be affected.
