CHANCE

MUSIC
Chance Music

 It is also known as Aleatory music

It is a century type of music in which

chance or indeterminate elements are
left for the performer to realize
Chance Music

The musical score may also include

the points where performers are to
improvise or even to include quasi-
theatrical gestures
Chance Music

Aspects, such as the ordering of a

piece’s sections, its rhythms, an even
its pitches are decided to the
movement of the performance
Famous Chance Music Composer

John Milton Cage Jr.

was born on September 5, 1912 in Los
Angeles California and died on August
12, 1992 in New York.
He was an American avant-garde
composer whose inventive compositions
and unconventional ideas greatly
influenced 20th-century music.
 4 ’33 ”

Four Minutes and Thirty-three Seconds

a chance musical work that
instructed the pianist to merely open
the piano lid and remain silent for the
length of time indicated by the title.
ELECTRONIC
MUSIC
Electronic Music

music that employs electronic musical

instruments and technology in
production.
Composers of this genre used
electronic equipment to produce
sounds of their desired loudness,
softness, pitch, rhythm, duration, and
tone color.
Musique Concrete
major creative movement of the
avant-garde music that uses a
tape recorder.
The composer is able to
experiment with different sound
that cannot be produced by
regular musical instruments.
Famous Electronic Music Composer

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Edgard Varese
Mario Davidovsky.
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