The 'Musikalisches Würfelspiel' was a system for 'generating' music (long before conputer systems) which was invented by Mozart. The system used dice and randomly selected small sections of music. These would be patched together and would create a musical piece. It used a method similar to 'Cut and Paste'. You can even have a go on a 'computerised' Musikalisches Würfelspiel here (http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Mozart/dice/#options) making a MIDI file. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Rolling dice Dice (the plural of the word die, probably from the Latin dare: to give) are, in general, small polyhedral objects with the faces marked with numbers or other symbols, thrown in order to choose one of the faces randomly. ...