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Aleatoric music (370 words) |
 | Aleatoric (or aleatory) music or composition, is music where some element of the composition is left to chance. |
| One of the earliest aleatoric compositions was the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel or Musical Dice Game, which consisted of a set of musical measures and a procedure for selecting them based on the throwing of a number of dice. |
| The invention of contemporary aleatoric music is usually credited to John Cage, although similar compositional ideas were explored by Henry Brant around the same time. |
| Article about "Aleatoric music" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (537 words) |
| The term was devised by the French composer Pierre Boulez to describe works where the performer was given certain liberties with regard to the order and repetition of parts of a musical work. |
| An early genre of composition that could be considered a precedent for aleatoric compositions were the Musikalisches Würfelspiele or Musical Dice Games, popular in the late 18th and early 19th century. |
| Music related to the aleatoric idea may be found in works of John Cage, who was in part inspired by his friend Morton Feldman who was making experiments with chance in music in the 1950s. |
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