- In
vocal music,
contrafactum (or contrafact, pl.
contrafacta) is "the
substitution of one text for
another without substantial change to the music". The...
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Hindi film songs, more
formally known as
Hindi Geet or
Filmi songs and
informally known as
Bollywood music, are
songs featured in
Hindi films. Derived...
- language.
Sephardic poets also
composed muwaššaḥāt in Hebrew,
sometimes as
contrafacta imitating the
rhyme and
metrical scheme of a
particular poem in Hebrew...
- West (First ed.). New York. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-393-92915-7.
Examples of
contrafacta abound in many
times and cultures. My Country, 'Tis of Thee, for instance...
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piece is
often sung out of the
context of the
opera there exist numerous contrafacta both
secular and
sacred as well as
paraphrases and translations. An example...
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because He hath done
wonderful things. The
melody was used by
composers in
contrafacta such as the
Christmas m**** by
Thomas Tallis. Roden,
Timothy J.; Wright...
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usually in Latin,
without any
other change (such
adaptations are
called "
contrafacta"). However, some of the
madrigali spirituali reached heights of expressive...
- The
campaigning for
presidential election of 1824 took many forms.
Contrafacta, or well
known songs and
tunes whose lyrics have been altered, were used...
- (motets
originally in
another language, ****ed with new
texts known as
contrafacta). W.
Richard Shindle, "Giovanni de Macque", in The New
Grove Dictionary...
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Federico Borromeo, he
specialized in
creating sacred contrafacta of
secular madrigals. His
contrafacta are of
interest for
their concentration on Monteverdi's...
