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- A contrafact is a musical work based on a prior work. The term comes from classical music and has only since the 1940s been applied to jazz, where it is...
- A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original...
- through Three Six Zero and Gamma. A deluxe edition titled Ceremonial Contrafact was released on September 27, with three additional tracks. Notes ^[a]...
- Dutch fondness for its royal family, the House of Orange-N****au. It is a contrafact, sharing the same melody as the children's song "We zijn er bijna (lit...
- that the lyrics were not about Soviet Jews. The song was originally a contrafact, and this practice continued in ghettos and camps during the Second World...
- was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989. "Ornithology" is a contrafact – a newly created melody written over the chord progression of another...
- Thelonious Monk. Contents Top 0–9 A B C E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W A contrafact based loosely on rhythm changes in C, and was copyrighted by Monk under...
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- writing, and that others had added the trumpeter as co-composer. It is a contrafact, being based on the harmony of "I Got Rhythm". The first recording of...
- In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". The...