"Chance Music" (also known as "Aleatoric music," from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music either written or performed with elements of chance. For example, a song written with the notes chosen by the roll of the dice, or one that includes a drawing of a tree in the sheet music, with the performers improvising based on what they think that should sound like. When learning about it back in my college musicianship classes, my teacher asked us to list a few ways a few ways chance music could be written. I was sorely tempted to write this one down, but restrained myself.
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