menu
Classical Music Daily
  • Latest
    • Sponsored features
    • Live Performance Reviews
    • CD Reviews
    • Games and Puzzles
    • Classical Music News
    • General Articles
    • Previews
    • Echoes of Oblivion
    • Book news and reviews
    • Obituaries
    • Concert halls
    • New Releases
  • People
    • Mike Wheeler
    • Gerald Fenech
    • Geoff Pearce
    • Keith Bramich
    • Ron Bierman
    • Allan Rae
    • Jeffrey Neil
    • Lucas Ball
    • Esdras Mugatik
    • Paul Sarcich
    • John Dante Prevedini
    • Roderic Dunnett
  • Places
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • Ukraine
    • France
    • Brazil
    • Argentina
    • Spain
    • Italy
    • United States of America
    • Austria
    • Palestine
    • Netherlands
  • Topics
    • nineteenth century
    • orchestral music
    • contemporary music
    • 21st century
    • piano music
    • flute music
    • cello music
    • chamber music
    • twentieth century
    • choral music
    • eighteenth century
    • Dies Irae
  • More
    • Search
    • Comment
    • Get updates
    • Contact us
    • Sponsor
    • Donate
    • Send material
    • Write for us
    • In depth
    • Newsletters
    • About us
    • Your privacy
    • Home page

Benjamin Britten in 1968NEWLY SPONSORED: Ensemble. Last Gasp of Boyhood. Roderic Dunnett investigates Jubilee Opera's A Time There Was for the Benjamin Britten centenary.
All sponsored features >>

Participants in the online discussion 'Classical music and artificial intelligence'. From left to right, top to bottom: George Coulouris, John Dante Prevedini, Michael Stephen Brown, April Fredrick, Adrian Rumson, Keith Bramich and David RainVIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Classical Music and Artificial Intelligence, including contributions from George Coulouris, Michael Stephen Brown, April Fredrick, Adrian Rumson and David Rain.

  • Dupré
  • Joseph Campbell
  • Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  • Héloïse Gaillard
  • Jessica Lennick
  • Ali Rahbari
  • Artur Malawski Podkarpacka Philharmonic Hall
  • Concours Luc Ferrari


aleatoric music

Aleatoric music, stochastic music or random music leaves some aspect of its creation to chance, or to be determined by its performer(s).  Although the term aleatoric music was first used in the 1950s, Charles Ives and Henry Cowell were using these techniques much earlier, and in fact Mozart was interested in music created using dice (or alea, in Latin), creating a dice game to create fragments of music at random.

 

A selection of articles about aleatoric music

Echoes of Oblivion by Robert McCarney - Randomness Run Riot

Classical music news. Edward Chilvers - Idiosyncratic pianist Edward Chilvers has devised a dice and mathematical chart system 'to follow nature not convention'

Classical music news. Obituary - Georg Katzer (1935-2019)

CD Spotlight. Compositional Thought - Piano music by John Corigliano, recommended by Karen Haid. 'Oppens and Lowenthal give strong performances of this music.'

Ensemble. Museum Culture? - Experimental music by Cage, Cowell, Feldman, Rzewski, Satie and Wolff, heard by Malcolm Miller

Provocations - Alistair Hinton and Chad Wozniak discuss Patric Standford's recent 'Provocative Thoughts'

  • Latest
    • Sponsored features
    • Live Performance Reviews
    • CD Reviews
    • Games and Puzzles
    • Classical Music News
    • General Articles
    • Previews
    • Echoes of Oblivion
    • Book news and reviews
    • Obituaries
    • Concert halls
    • New Releases
  • People
    • Mike Wheeler
    • Gerald Fenech
    • Geoff Pearce
    • Keith Bramich
    • Ron Bierman
    • Allan Rae
    • Jeffrey Neil
    • Lucas Ball
    • Esdras Mugatik
    • Paul Sarcich
    • John Dante Prevedini
    • Roderic Dunnett
  • Places
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • Ukraine
    • France
    • Brazil
    • Argentina
    • Spain
    • Italy
    • United States of America
    • Austria
    • Palestine
    • Netherlands
  • Topics
    • nineteenth century
    • orchestral music
    • contemporary music
    • 21st century
    • piano music
    • flute music
    • cello music
    • chamber music
    • twentieth century
    • choral music
    • eighteenth century
    • Dies Irae
  • More
    • Search
    • Comment
    • Get updates
    • Contact us
    • Sponsor
    • Donate
    • Send material
    • Write for us
    • In depth
    • Newsletters
    • About us
    • Your privacy
    • Home page

 

 

All material © 1998-2023 Classical Music Daily,
various authors and photographers.
All rights of the original copyright holders
are reserved, and are credited where known.
Formerly known as Music & Vision –
The world's first daily classical music magazine
Founding Editor: Basil Ramsey (1929-2018);
Editor: Keith Bramich