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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. In classical music, contrafacts have been used as early as the
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borrowing Chopin's nocturnes, or Matt A. Mason's "Heiligenstadt Echo" which takes from Beethoven's Sonata in A♭ major, op. 110. The Gershwin tune "
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Patrick, James S. (1975). "Charlie Parker and the Harmonic Sources of Bebop Composition: Thoughts on the Repertory of New Jazz in the 1940s".
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musicians to create new pieces for performance and recording on which they could immediately
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materials (while melodies can be copyrighted, the underlying harmonic structure cannot be).
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As a compositional device, it was of particular importance in the 1940s development of
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Williams, Martin (1 January 1992). "What Kind of Composer Was Thelonious Monk?".
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was produced by systematically changing notes from the melody line of
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as a basic harmonic structure used by jazz composers.
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Index

Contrafactum
Borrowed chord
parody mass
In Nomine
Cheap Imitation
John Cage
Socrate
Erik Satie
jazz
musical composition
melody
harmonic structure
bop
jazz
improvise
copyrighted
musical quotations
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
Donna Lee
Back Home Again in Indiana
Thelonious Monk
jazz standard
Just You, Just Me
Luciano Berio
George Crumb
I Got Rhythm
rhythm changes
12-bar blues
Contrafactum

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