ALEATORY MUSIC

āˈlēətôrˌē [Lat. alea=dice game], music in which elements traditionally determined by the composer are determined either by a process of random selection chosen by the composer or by the exercise of choice by the performer(s). At the compositional stage, pitches, durations, dynamics, and so forth are made functions of playing card drawings, dice throwings, or mathematical laws of chance, the latter with the possible aid of a computer. Those elements usually left to the performers' discretion include the order of execution of sections of a work, the possible exclusion of such sections, and subjective interpretation of temporal and spatial pitch relations. Also called "chance music," aleatory music has been produced in abundance since 1945 by several composers, the most notable being John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis.

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books on: Aleatory Music  - 568 results

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Writings on Music - Vol. 4
Book by Electra Slonimsky Yourke; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Music--History And Criticism
...total indeterminacy. A new term, Aleatory music, made its appearance in New...probabilities. The chief prophet of aleatory music in America is John CAGE (b. 1912...ultimate aim of American composers of aleatory music is to relegate the entire process...
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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
Book by Samuel A. Floyd; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: African Americans--Music--History And Criticism, Music--United States--History And Criticism
THE POWER OF BLACK MUSIC THE POWER OF BLACK MUSIC Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Floyd, Samuel A. The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States...
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Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004)
Book by Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bemhart, Werner Wolf; Rodopi, 2004
Subjects: Music And Literature, Music In Literature
Word and Music Studies Essays on Literature and Music ( 1967 - 2004) by Steven Paul Scher WORD AND MUSIC STUDIES 5 Series Editors Walter Bernhart Lawrence Kramer Suzanne M. Lodato Steven Paul Scher Wemer Wolf The book series...
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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America
Book by Robert P. Morgan; Norton, 1991
Subjects: Music--20th Century--History And Criticism, Style, Musical
TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC The Norton Introduction to Music History TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America ROBERT P. MORGAN Yale University W W NORTON COMPANY New York London Copyright...
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Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook
Book by Larry Sitsky; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Avant-Garde (Music), Composers--Biography, Music--20th Century--History And Criticism
Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde A BIOCRITICAL SOURCEBOOK...London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde: a biocritical sourcebook...
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journal articles on: Aleatory Music  - 31 results

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"Thinking Strictly Prohibited": Music, Language, and Thought in "Sirens"
Journal article by Stuart Allen; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Joyce, James--Criticism and interpretation, Joyce, James--Works, Music--Portrayals, Ulysses (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...Although Adorno is interested in musics cognitive aspect, for him it is neither simply rational nor purely aleatory: Music bereft of all intentionality, the merely phenomenal linking of...
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Notes towards a Requiem: Or the Music of Memory
Journal article by David Wills; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation, Derrida, Jacques--Performances, Literary critics--Criticism and interpretation, Literary critics--Performances
...alternative between the pure aleatory ... and excessive premeditation...now, more than any other this music tends to offer itself as a welcome...forename, play it, send it to me in music, in saxotelephony, in saxotelephonepiphany...improvise between language and music, to create a new language or...
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The Plainsong of the Double Dream of Spring: John Ashbery, Olivier Messiaen, and Rituals of the Sacred
Journal article by J.L. Jacobs, Ronald Schleifer; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2004
Subjects: Ashbery, John--Comparative analysis, Ashbery, John--Criticism and interpretation, Ashbery, John--Works, Composers--Comparative analysis, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Works, Messiaen, Olivier--Comparative analysis, Messiaen, Olivier--Criticism and interpretation, Messiaen, Olivier--Works, Poets--Comparative analysis, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, The Double Dream of Spring (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Three Poems (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...I recall, entirely of isolated, autonomous tone-clusters struck seemingly at random all over the keyboard. It was aleatory music.... W hat mattered was that chance elements could combine to produce so beautiful and cogent a work It was a further...
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Blougram's Wager, Guido's Odds: Browning, Chance, and Probability
Journal article by Rowena Fowler; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003
Subjects: Browning, Robert--Works, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Works, Probabilities--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...1) BROWNINGS IS AN ESSENTIALLY ALEATORY POETRY, DERIVING ITS DRAMATIC life from the clashing and balancing...the context of works as diverse as Roderick Random and The Music of Chance, though most commentators have concentrated on the...
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The Art of Thought: David Antin, Improvisation, Asia
Journal article by George Leonard; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 21, 2001
Subjects: American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Antin, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Art, Asian--Philosophy, Extemporaneous speaking--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...separates Antins improvisations from fully aleatory art, of which the most famous example...the worlds forms--in flamenco, in ragga music, the sitar and tabla variations." (He...allowing his "personality" to intrude in his music. The mortal sin of Western art, its ultimate...
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magazine articles on: Aleatory Music  - 18 results

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Instruction: To Compose without the Least Knowledge of Music So Much German Waltzer of Schleifer as One Pleases, by Throwing a Certain Number with Two Dice
Magazine article by Richard C. Shadinger; American Music Teacher, Vol. 52, October 2002
Subjects: Instruction: To Compose Without the Least Knowledge of Music So Much German Waltzer of Schleifer as One Pleases, by Throwing a Certain Number with Two Dice (Book)
...it is a good, early example of aleatory music. The piece is printed in facsimile...an interesting way to approach aleatory music for the first time with students...something new about Mozart and aleatory music. I highly recommend this musical...
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Exploring Chamber Music: A List of Lesser Known Works for Flute, Harp and Various Other Instruments
Magazine article by Dominique Piana; American Harp Journal, Summer 2009
Subjects: Chamber music--Appreciation, Flute music--Appreciation, Harp music--Appreciation
...his fondness for the melodies and rhythms of Argentine folk music. Then, coinciding with political trouble at home and opportunities...20th century innovations, from polytonality to 12note writing, aleatory procedures and microtones. Through it all, there is a continuous...
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Body and Soul: The Musical Miseducation of the Youth
Magazine article by Martha Bayles; Public Interest, Spring 1998
Subjects: Music and youth--Analysis, Music--Social aspects, Popular music--Analysis
...Pleasants, for 35 years the classical music critic for the International Herald...recordings of atonal, serialist, and aleatory compositions, Pleasants wrote...doubts about atonal, serialist, and aleatory music. In a nutshell, there seems to...
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Sonic Boom
Magazine article by Sukhdev Sandhu; New Statesman, Vol. 133, July 5, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sonata for Jukebox: pop music, memory, and the imagined life (Book)--Book reviews
...well a writer, he is captivated by hybrid forms: sounds that blur the boundaries between noise and music, acoustic and digital, composed and aleatory. Slowly, a politics of listening emerges: one that shuns the false sonic consciousness promoted...
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Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art
Magazine article by Jack Miles; Cross Currents, Vol. 50, Fall 2000
Subjects: Bible (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cage, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ecology--Religious aspects, Environmental protection--Religious aspects, Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., International relations--Religious aspects, Religious literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Sun Also Rises (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...urinal, the gesture bespoke not Zen but Dada. 433" is aleatory music inasmuch as chance determines what real-world sounds...the concert shed. Cage has written other kinds of aleatory music, but he and everyone else regards 433" as his most...
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Arts Diary: RLPO Schwarz/ Philharmonic Hall
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 31, 2004
...work for both orchestra and vocalists. There are angular lines,complex rhythms,opaqueharmonies. At times, the music takes on an aleatory feel -do-what- you want almost. At other times,it is so strict everyone stands almost stock still. The women...
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Frankenreiter Brings Funky Guitar Sound to WOW Hall
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 20, 2006
...together. "This years Jagermeister Music Tour is all about the music and the vibes," a news release says. "Two of the most innovative...the news release says, are known as the "Golden Palominos of Aleatory Improvisation." They havent played together for 11 years, but...


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encyclopedia articles on: Aleatory Music  - 7 results

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Aleatory Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALEATORY MUSIC a le tor e Lat. alea =dice game, music in which elements traditionally...interpretation of temporal and spatial pitch relations. Also called "chance music," aleatory music has been produced in abundance since 1945 by several composers...
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Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MUSIC For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock...
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Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...characterized by much emphasis on free rhythms, tonal repetition, dissonance, and percussive effects. He was an adherent of aleatory music and allowed performers to determine certain aspects of a performance, e.g., they can improvise, begin and end at...
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Boulez, Pierre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the techniques of serial music not only to pitch, but also...1957, unfinished), in which aleatory processes are explored (see aleatory music ); and Eclat (1965), for...Boulez was director of music for Jean-Louis Barrault...
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Musical Notation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its relative minor became conventional. They assumed their present form during the baroque period. The advent of aleatory music has produced notation systems, varying from piece to piece, indicating only approximate pitch, duration, and dynamic...
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