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The 18 pages that link to Aleatoric music, each with the reason it gives.

• SerialismCompared with: Its controlled openness differs from serialism’s fixed precomposition.

• John CageRelated: This broader tradition includes compositional freedoms Cage helped bring to prominence.

• Karlheinz StockhausenCompared with: His controlled openness differs from chance-based methods associated with John Cage.

• Pierre BoulezCompared with: Boulez’s controlled use of openness differed from approaches that leave outcomes substantially to chance.

• Graphic notationRelated: Some graphic scores use chance to shape the sounds performers produce.

• Avant-garde musicBroader topic: It gives chance a defined role in shaping musical events.

• Indeterminacy in musicRelated: This closely related term describes music shaped by chance, though usage overlaps with indeterminacy.

• Experimental musicCompared with: It overlaps with experimental practice but specifically foregrounds chance as a method.

• Free improvisationCompared with: It may sound open-ended, yet its uncertainty often comes from a composed score or procedure.

• New ComplexityCompared with: Its reliance on chance contrasts with New Complexity’s close specification of musical events.

• Darmstadt Summer CoursesCompared with: Its indeterminate procedures challenged the control prized by some serial composers at Darmstadt.

• 4′33″Related: The piece’s fixed timing contrasts with the chance sounds heard during each performance.

• Tōru TakemitsuRelated: Takemitsu used controlled indeterminacy to loosen fixed musical structures.

• György LigetiCompared with: Ligeti’s dense textures can sound indeterminate, though their details are carefully composed.

• Luciano BerioCompared with: Berio used performer freedom selectively, rather than making chance the governing principle of his music.

• Iannis XenakisCompared with: Xenakis used mathematical probability, distinguishing his procedures from open-ended chance methods.

• Henryk GóreckiCompared with: Its open procedures contrast with the deliberate repetition and long-range control in Górecki’s mature works.

• Neue MusikCompared with: It challenges the total control pursued by some serial composers.