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A fiction writer is thus free to invent very specific events and characters in the imagined history. An example of a counterfactual question would be: "What if the Pearl Harbor attack did not happen?"; whereas an alternate history writer would focus on a possible series of events arising therefrom.
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". [1] The earliest known examples of this procedure (sometimes referred to as ''adaptation'') date back to the 9th century used in connection with Gregorian chant.
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 still not standard
Moorcock, who has appeared with the band on numerous occasions, does the narration on Live Chronicles. [3] [4] [5] Dust and Dreams: Camel: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck [6] Epica: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Epica is a concept album based on Faust, Part One. It was followed by The Black Halo, which was based on Faust, Part ...
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Musical fiction is a genre of fiction in which music is paramount: both as subject matter, and through the rhythm and flow of the prose; that is, music is manifested through the language itself.