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    Chance Music, also known as aleatoric music, leaves some elements of musical composition or performance to chance. Pioneer John Cage experimented with chance-based techniques and compositions. Some of Cage's most influential chance-based works include 4'33" (1952), which instructs the performer not to play for the duration, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) which uses radios, and Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) for prepared piano. Cage used techniques like indeterminacy and I Ching to incorporate chance into works such as Cheap Imitation (1969) and Roaratorio (1979).

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    Chance Music, also known as aleatoric music, leaves some elements of musical composition or performance to chance. Pioneer John Cage experimented with chance-based techniques and compositions. Some of Cage's most influential chance-based works include 4'33" (1952), which instructs the performer not to play for the duration, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) which uses radios, and Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) for prepared piano. Cage used techniques like indeterminacy and I Ching to incorporate chance into works such as Cheap Imitation (1969) and Roaratorio (1979).

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    Chance Music, also known as aleatoric music, leaves some elements of musical composition or performance to chance. Pioneer John Cage experimented with chance-based techniques and compositions. Some of Cage's most influential chance-based works include 4'33" (1952), which instructs the performer not to play for the duration, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) which uses radios, and Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) for prepared piano. Cage used techniques like indeterminacy and I Ching to incorporate chance into works such as Cheap Imitation (1969) and Roaratorio (1979).

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    ANETCH ITECH?

    CHANCE MUSIC
    What is Chance Music ?
    ◦ Chance Music
    ◦ or Aleatoric Music from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice", is a 20th
    century music in which some element of the composition is left to
    chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's
    realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).
    ◦ In some point, the performers are given the freedom to choose the
    order, to arrange the structure of the piece and are allowed to
    improvised.
    ◦ John Cage is the pioneer of "Aleatoric Music".
    Who is John Cage ?
    ◦ John Milton Cage Jr. was born on Sep. 5, 1912 in Los Angeles, California and died on
    Aug. 12, 1992 in New York.
    ◦ He was an American avant - garde composer whose inventive compositions and
    unconventional ideas greatly influenced 20th century music.
    ◦ His early compositions were written in the twelve - tone method with Schoenberg as
    his teacher.
    ◦ In 1939, he experimented and worked on "prepared piano" where he inserted objects
    like screws, wood, and paper between the piano strings.
    ◦ In 1943, he was marked as a leader of the American musical avant - garde with his
    percussive ensemble concert at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
    ◦ His works was one considered as the most important traditions ramging from
    minimalist and electronic music to performance art.
    WORKS OF JOHN CAGE
    4'33 (1952)

    ◦ 4'33 (1952)
    - (pronounced "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "Four thirty-three").
    - is a three-movement composition
    - It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the
    score instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during the entire duration
    of the piece throughout the three movements.
    Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951)
    • is a composition for 24 performers on 12 radios and
    conductor by American composer John Cage and the
    fourth in the series of Imaginary Landscapes.

    • It is the first installment not to include any percussion


    instrument at all and Cage's first composition to be
    based fully on chance operations.

    • It is also the second march in the set of Imaginary


    Landscapes,
    Sonatas and Interludes (1946 - 48)

    ◦ is a cycle of twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-


    garde composer John Cage
    ◦ It was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage's introduction to Indian philosophy and
    the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both of which became
    major influences on the composer's later work.
    Fontana Mix (1958)
    ◦ a piece based on a series of programmed transparent cards that gave a graph for the
    random selection of electronic sound when overlapped.
    Cheap Imitation (1969)
    ◦ is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate
    piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie.
    Roaratorio (1979)
    ◦ is a musical composition by American avant-garde composer John Cage. It was
    composed in 1979 for Klaus Schöning of West German Radio, and premiered as one of
    the entries in Schöning's radio series.

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