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contrafact

Contrafact vs Contrafacta - What's the difference?

contrafact | contrafacta |


As nouns the difference between contrafact and contrafacta

is that contrafact is a new musical composition built out of an already existing one, most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. An important part of the development of bebop. Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which comprise borrowing rhythms or melodies from an existing composition while contrafacta is plural of lang=en.