- 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...
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Thelonious Monk.
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contrafact based loosely on
rhythm changes in C, and was
copyrighted by Monk under...
- 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...
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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...
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through Three Six Zero and Gamma. A
deluxe edition titled Ceremonial Contrafact was
released on
September 27, with
three additional tracks.
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melodies over
existing jazz
forms and standards, a
practice known as
contrafact and
still common in jazz today.
Examples include "Ornithology" (which...
- Curtin/Hanna/Barbera) is
based on the
rhythm changes,
thereby being a
contrafact of "I Got Rhythm". This progression's
endurance in po****rity is largely...
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- In
vocal music,
contrafactum (or
contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the
substitution of one text for
another without substantial change to the music". The...
