G10 Chance Music

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also called indeterminate music.

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Chance music

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also called aleatoric music

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Chance music

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“aleatory” comes from the Latin word

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alea

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alea means “_”

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dice

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It is a music wherein the process of composing is left to
chance or the performance is left to the musical decisions of
the performer.

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chance music

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Chance music is a combination of external sounds that

cannot be _ as each happens by chance.

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duplicated

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Improvised Instruments
Piece always sounds different at every performance
Surroundings, both natural and man-made

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Chance music

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Types of Chance Music

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Chance Music in composition
Chance Music in performance
Chance Music in notation

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These chance procedures include

Chance Music in composition

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flipping coins, rolling dice,

and other random procedures.

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The _ _ are done by the composer in the
process of composition.

(Chance Music in composition)

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chance procedures

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The end product is a _, _ score

Chance Music in composition

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fixed, determinate

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the musical decisions are done by the performer​.

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Chance Music in performance​

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This type is more improvisatory in nature.

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Chance Music in performance​

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composers gives sets of traditionally notated music to
performers and letting the performer decide the
_ of the events during the performance.

(Chance Music in performance​)

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arrangement

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Performers are given _ _ or _ _
to interpret the same way as traditional notation.

(Chance Music in notation)

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graphic notation or verbal directions

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In a _ _, performers are given sheets with shapes
and lines of different colors, thicknesses, and size.

(Chance Music in notation)

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graphic score

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They will then interpret the graphics as _. _ and _.

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pitch, dynamics, and

volume

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He is an American 20th-century
composer, most famous among chance
music composers.

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John Cage

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years John Cage lived

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1912-1992

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Cage’s reason in writing indeterminate

music was to

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“liberate the sounds and let them

be themselves.”

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Cage’s Famous Works

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Music of Changes (1951)
Concert for Piano and Orchestra (premiered 1958)
4’33” (1952)

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The piece was written for piano. Cage used the I
Ching method of arriving at random numbers to
make musical decisions like tempo, duration, and
dynamics;

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Music of Changes (1951)

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Music of Changes year

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1951

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Comprised of 63 pages of 84 sets of compositions that are to be played at any
duration in any sequence by a solo performer, or any combination of piano,
flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, tuba, 3 violins, 2 cellos, and a
contrabass.

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Concert for Piano and Orchestra (premiered 1958)

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The notation uses a system wherein spaces indicate the time. The conductor acts as a _ on the podium... waving his arms like clock hands. (Concert for Piano and Orchestra (premiered 1958)

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clock

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The notes are also of different sizes, which may denote duration, dynamics, or both.

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Concert for Piano and Orchestra (premiered 1958)

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when did concery for piano and orchestra premiere?

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1958

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Written for any instrument. The piece directs musicians not to play their instruments for four minutes and thirty-three seconds, as dictated by the title. The indeterminate element comes from the sounds created by the audience during the period of silence.

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4’33” (1952)

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4'33" when

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1952

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other examples of indeterminate music

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“​Klavierstück XI” “Available Forms” “Intersection No. 2”

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other examples of indeterminate music

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“​Klavierstück XI” “Available Forms” “Intersection No. 2”

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by Karlheinz Stockhausen: comprised of 19 different parts that are notated traditionally. The performer decides which sequence the different parts are to be performed in;

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“​Klavierstück XI”

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by Earle Brown: the conductor decides the order of the events at the start of the performance; and

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“Available Forms”

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by Earle Brown: the conductor decides the order of the events at the start of the performance; and

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“Available Forms”

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by Earle Brown: the conductor decides the order of the events at the start of the performance; and

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“Available Forms”

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by Earle Brown: the conductor decides the order of the events at the start of the performance; and

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“Available Forms”

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by Morton Feldman: a piano solo whose score is written on graphing paper. The horizontal squares determine the time, while the vertical squares determine the pitch levels. The performer determines the pitches and rhythms.

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“Intersection No. 2”