What musical technique involving chance did Pierre Boulez develop?
Controlled chance music
Random harmonic progressions
Improvised counterpoint
Atonal shuffling
Answer
Controlled chance music, also known as stochastic music, is a musical technique developed by French composer Pierre Boulez. It is based on the idea of using chance to generate musical elements, such as pitch, rhythm, and timbre, but in a controlled way so that the result is still coherent and musical.
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