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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.
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 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 ...
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.
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Music at Night is a 1931 collection of essays by Aldous Huxley.. The essays in this book cover different subjects, such as morality in arts ('To the Puritan All Things are Impure', a defence of his friend D. H. Lawrence), music ("After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music", he writes in 'The Rest is Silence'), similarities in the behaviour of men and cats ...