Klarinet Archive - Posting 000807.txt from 1997/10

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: Mozart musical dice game "on the net"
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:16:42 -0400

http://204.96.11.210/jchuang/Music/Mozart/mozart.cgi
is the URL for Mozart's Musical Dice Game:
David Blumberg

Dan Leeson wrote:
Chance compositions are of two types: (1) the creation of the
composition itself was done with chance methods, or (2)
the performance was done under these circumstances.

Mozart wrote a chance framework called "The Musical Dice Game"
though some say that Mozart did not have a hand in it. You
can buy it as a board game.

It consists of 12 measures any one of which can be used as
the first measure of the composition you are about to construct,
another 12 measures any one of which can be used as
the second measure of the compositions, etc.

You roll dice and pick the first measure randomly. And you
repeat the process until you have a complete minuet. Then
you play it.

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