Contrafact

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<p>Well-known examples of contrafacts in jazz include the <a href="/facts/Charlie_Parker/Mjowo35o">Charlie Parker</a>/<a href="/facts/Miles_Davis/sywS2Krc">Miles Davis</a> bop tune "<a href="/facts/Donna_Lee/gmjvwbVS">Donna Lee</a>," which uses the chord changes of the standard "<a href="/facts/Back_Home_Again_in_Indiana/p4vvPasQ">Back Home Again in Indiana</a>"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> or <a href="/facts/Thelonious_Monk/lmJAUhCt">Thelonious Monk</a>'s <a href="/facts/Jazz_standard/WFIUP78I">jazz standard</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> "Evidence", which borrows the chord progression from Jesse Greer and Raymond Klages's song "<a href="/facts/Just_You,_Just_Me/7RERnlpS">Just You, Just Me</a>" (1929).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The Gershwin tune "<a href="/facts/I_Got_Rhythm/VVyQAtll">I Got Rhythm</a>" has proved especially amenable to contrafactual recomposition: the popularity of its "<a href="/facts/Rhythm_changes/CFa82SR8">rhythm changes</a>" is second only to that of the <a href="/facts/12-bar_blues/NPuEjsWL">12-bar blues</a> as a basic harmonic structure used by jazz composers.
</p><p>Examples from the classical oeuvre include the <a href="/facts/Ave_Maria_(Bach/Gounod)/M6wIpA89">Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)</a>; Sinfonia by <a href="/facts/Luciano_Berio/tWJ2he4H">Luciano Berio</a> using fragments from Mahler; <a href="/facts/George_Crumb/ULvplYYr">George Crumb</a> borrowing Chopin's nocturnes; or Matt A. Mason's "Heiligenstadt Echo" which takes from Beethoven's Sonata in A♭ major, op. 110.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Contrafactum/MyJQVdc3">Contrafactum</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Stomp_progression/pY5rWKKd">Stomp progression</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_jazz_contrafacts/XaQuKxSK">List of jazz contrafacts</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="sources">Sources</h2>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Patrick, James S. (1975). "Charlie Parker and the Harmonic Sources of Bebop Composition: Thoughts on the Repertory of New Jazz in the 1940s". <i>Journal of Jazz Studies</i>. 2: 3–23.</li>
<li>Baker, David (1988). "The Contrafact". <i>How to Play Bebop</i>. Vol. 3. Alfred Music Publishing. pp. 1–4. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-7390-2182-8.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ol><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928041417/http://www.iaje.org/article.asp?ArticleID=171">Jazz Resource Library | Glossary</a> at <a href="http://www.jazzinamerica.org">Jazz in America</a></li>
<li>Helzer, Richard A. (2004). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928041417/http://www.iaje.org/article.asp?ArticleID=171">"Cultivating the Art of Jazz Composition"</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived September 28, 2007), <i>iaje.com</i>.</li></ol>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2002), "Contrafact", The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz;, vol. 1 (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Barry_Kernfeld" target="_blank">/wiki/Barry_Kernfeld</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Rosenthal, David, H. (1992). Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505869-0.{{cite book}}:  CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) <a href="0-19-505869-0" target="_blank">0-19-505869-0</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Yanow, Scott (2008). "Thelonious Monk" biography, AllMusic. <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p106839/biography" target="_blank">https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p106839/biography</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Williams, Martin (1 January 1992). "What Kind of Composer Was Thelonious Monk?". The Musical Quarterly. 76 (3): 433–441. doi:10.1093/mq/76.3.433. <a href="/wiki/The_Musical_Quarterly" target="_blank">/wiki/The_Musical_Quarterly</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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