ALEATORY MUSIC Synonyms

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• relating to or based on experiment

• relying on observation or experiment

• of the nature of or undergoing an experiment

• without care; in a slapdash manner

• dependent upon or characterized by chance

• marked by great carelessness

• not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance

• having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex

• of uncertain or ambiguous nature

• (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved

• not leading to a definite ending or result

• lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance

• happening or arising without apparent external cause

• said or done without having been planned or written in advance

• being or having a random variable

• not expected or anticipated

• not capable of being foretold

• unknown in advance

• not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals

• Having the nature of an improvisation.

• 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize.

• 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize.