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a "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of this range from wind chimes, Arts Music Birmingham Alabama through computer programs which select sounds. Music which contains elements Arts Music Birmingham Alabama selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a term Arts Music Birmingham Alabama that describes the composition of a piece Arts Music Birmingham Alabama of music. Methods of Arts Music Birmingham Alabama composition vary widely from one composer to another, however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or untrained � are built from elements comprising Arts Music Birmingham Alabama a Arts Music Birmingham Alabama musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed on the spot. The music can be performed Jokes Music entirely from memory, from a written system of musical notation, or some combination Arts Music Birmingham Alabama of both. Study of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but the definition of composition is broad enough to

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