Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

aleatory music: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As indeterminism • chance music

Related Topics and References

Topics

Key People

John Cage
John Cage
American composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen seated in a studio, holding sheet music and looking intently forward, with audio equipment and cables in the foreground.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
Nono
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
Luciano Berio, 1970
Luciano Berio
Italian composer
Foss, 1969
Lukas Foss
American composer
Henri Pousseur
Henri Pousseur
Belgian composer
default image
Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer
default image
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer

Related Quizzes

Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz