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  2. Contrafact - Wikipedia

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    Well-known examples of contrafacts in jazz include the Charlie Parker/Miles Davis bop tune "Donna Lee," which uses the chord changes of the standard "Back Home Again in Indiana" [2] or Thelonious Monk's jazz standard [3] "Evidence", which borrows the chord progression from Jesse Greer and Raymond Klages's song "Just You, Just Me" (1929). [4]

  3. Contrafactum - Wikipedia

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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". [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.

  4. List of jazz contrafacts - Wikipedia

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    A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement.Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition.

  5. Counterfactual history - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a study by Meyers-Levy and Maheswaran, subjects were more likely to counterfactual think alternative circumstances for a target person if their house burned down three days after they forgot to renew their insurance versus six months after they forgot to renew their insurance.

  7. Counter-melody - Wikipedia

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    In music, a counter-melody (often countermelody) is a sequence of notes, perceived as a melody, written to be played simultaneously with a more prominent lead melody. In other words, it is a secondary melody played in counterpoint with the primary melody.

  8. Anti-genre - Wikipedia

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    In this famous and controversial piece, John Cage presents silence as the antithesis of music. Thus, the absence of all audible content becomes music's anti-genre. There are, however other examples. If music is the artistic arrangement of sound, then the non-artistic arrangement of sound might be a suitable candidate for musical-negation. Non ...

  9. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    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 ...