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Aleatoric Music

Aleatoric is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance.

1) Choose six notes from the piano.

2) Then give each note a number.

3) Roll a dice any number of times to create a row of notes (tone row).

Here's an example of what might happen...

C = 1 F = 2 G = 3 G# = 4 A = 5 A# = 6

I've rolled the dice 5 time and had these numbers

3 then 4 then 2 then 2 then 6

G G# F F A# (my tone row)

Then I can make a melody with those notes!

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