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         _______           /  o   /|       ______
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       /   o   / |       |       | | ____o____o___|____|___
      /______o/  |  _____|_o   o |o| ____________o____o____|
     |        | o| /       \ o   | | _____________________o_
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                 |  o  o  o  |_____/    \  /\___/  \___/    \_
                 |  o  o  o  |           \/
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'Muzikaal Dobbelspel' is Dutch for 'musical dice game'. Its more known 
in its German translation: 'Musikalisches Würfelspiel. This is an old 
technique to generate 'random music' using dice. In 18th century 
sophisticated upperclass 'tout monde' hip music circles this was allllll 
the rage - akin to something like using artificial intelligence in music 
today. Although without the need for a degree in advanced compositional 
machine intelligence  - you just need two dice and a notepad!

There were lots of different variations of 'Muzikale Dobbelspellen' (that 
is the Dutch plural) - using different systems. Mostly they were pieces 
of'preset' note patterns which you added together according to the 
numbers you cast with the dice. Once you did this a bunch of times you 
ended up with a 'random' waltz out of nowhere.

Here is a little Muzikaal Dobbelspel to make a monophonic melody in four 
different exotic scales:

Determine a scale from the list below (Venusian, Centaurian, Vulcanian, 
Andromedian) and throw 2 dice. Now add the two cast numbers together - 
check which note that sum represents from the list below and write it 
down. Now do this 16 times (or 12 or whatever your measure is). If you 
cast a 'nix' you skip a position in the measure - this nix can either be 
a tie or a rest - you can throw one dice again to decide this. If you 
cast 1,2,3 its a tie - 4,5,6 its a rest.


      Venusian         Centaurian     Vulcanian   Andromedian
         2 C ____________ nix  _______ A#    ______ nix
         3 A ____________ B    _______ nix   ______ nix
         4 D ____________ C    _______ A#    ______ A
         5 G ____________ D    _______ B     ______ C#
         6 B ____________ F#   _______ C#    ______ D
         7 E ____________ B    _______ D#    ______ A
         8 F# ___________ C    _______ F     ______ F#
         9 D+1 Oct_______ G    _______ F#    ______ G#
        10 nix __________ A    _______ nix   ______ D+1 oct
        11 nix __________ G    _______ B     ______ F#+1 oct
        12 nix __________ nix   ______ F     ______ nix

So if you threw a 5 and a 3 you have a total of 8, if you chose the 
Vulcanian scale the note will be F

if you threw 2 and 1 the total will be 3, if you chose the Andromedian 
scale there will be no note and you skip a position in the measure. 
Throw one dice again - if you cast 5 the empty position will be a rest.

If you are not familiar where the notes on a keyboard are you can use 
this diagram:

            a#            a#
   d#     g#|    d#    g# |
 c# |   f#| |  c# |  f# | |  
 _|_|___|_|_|___|_|_ _|_|_|_
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 c d e f g a b c d e f g a b
               | + 1 octave |