Dados de Mozart

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Musical dice gameIn 1792 the editor of Mozart published "Musikalisches Würfelspiel" (musical dice game) with the caption:"To compose waltzes, with the help of a dice and without needing the minimum knowledge about musical composition."This work is not a score, but a 16-bar waltz generator.
To do so Mozart wrote 176 bars numbered from 1 to 176 and grouped them into 16 sets of 11 bars each.
To generate a particular waltz, 1 compass of each set of 16 is selected with the help of 2 dice that are thrown 16 times: the sum of the numbers obtained in each roll indicates which compass of each column is the one chosen to compose the waltz.
The waltz is obtained by reproducing the 16 bars thus obtained.This app is a tribute to the genius of Mozart reproducing the idea of ​​his game of dice.