contrafactum
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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 earliest known examples of this "lyrical adaptation" date back to the 9th century in Gregorian chant.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Categories
- Significantly different lyrics in another language
- Poems set to music
- Self-reworking
- Parody
- Other
- Pre- and early medieval era
- High and late medieval era
- Post-medieval and modern era
- See also
- References
In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". The earliest known examples of this "lyrical adaptation" date back to the 9th century in Gregorian chant.
== Categories == Types of contrafacta that are wholesale substitution of a different text include the following:
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