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Noun: aleatory music
  1. 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize
    "He based his idea of structured improvisation on similar processes in the aleatory music of composer John Cage.";
    - chance music, aleatoric music

Type of: art movement, artistic movement

Encyclopedia: Aleatory music