- 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...
- The
campaigning for
presidential election of 1824 took many forms.
Contrafacta, or well
known songs and
tunes whose lyrics have been altered, were used...
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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...
- 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...
- language.
Sephardic poets also
composed muwaššaḥāt in Hebrew,
sometimes as
contrafacta imitating the
rhyme and
metrical scheme of a
particular poem in Hebrew...
- objectionable, such as
secular songs provided with
religious lyrics (
contrafacta) or m****es
based on
songs with
lyrics about drinking or lovemaking; and...
- Marcabru's
poetry survive; additionally,
three melodies of
poems that may be
contrafacta of Marcabru's work may be
attributed to him. This
nickname may come from...
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traditional polyphony.
Aquilino Coppini drew much of the
music for his
sacred contrafacta of 1608 from Monteverdi's 3rd, 4th and 5th
books of madrigals. In writing...
