- In
vocal music,
contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the
substitution of one text for
another without substantial change to the music". The...
- M****achusetts. The use of the same
melody as the
British royal anthem is a
contrafactum which reworks this
symbol of
British monarchy to make a
statement about...
- for the
Latin text: the 1610
copies give the
underlay for the
English contrafactum, sung at the 1610
investiture of
Henry Frederick,
Prince of Wales, "Sing...
-
swapping of
lyrics without substantial change to the
music is
known as
contrafactum. The
words describe a
series of
images of
hardships that the industrious...
- others.
Eloise Hubbard Linscott believes the
first part of the song is a
contrafactum of the
ballad "My
Grandmother Lived on
Yonder Little Green", published...
- Zimmermannsgeselle" and of "Lauriger Horatius". The tune has also been used (as a
contrafactum) to
carry other texts on many occasions.
Notable uses include: "The Red...
- year later.
Another cover, by Joan
Regan made
number 42 a w**** later. A
contrafactum of a
German drinking song (Schnitzelbank), "Must Be Santa" is structured...
- of
motets for five to
eight voices, litanies,
laudi spirituali, and
contrafactum motets (motets
originally in
another language, ****ed with new texts...
- for
which a
melody has survived. The
melody has been
suggested to be a
contrafactum of 12th-century
troubadour Jaufre Rudel's song "Lanquan li jorn". The...
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considerably or
completely different from the original, thus
resulting in a
contrafactum.
Translations of sung texts—whether of the
above type
meant to be sung...
