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Centonization
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Music/wvCBQYQ3">music</a> centonization (from Latin <i>cento</i> or patchwork) is <a href="/facts/Musical_composition/EUR2qaQw">musical composition</a> via the combination of pre-existing <a href="/facts/Motif_(music)/Bag88j9V">motivic</a> units, typically in reference to Christian liturgical <a href="/facts/Chant/WUXJtIvJ">chant</a>. A piece created using centonization is known as a "centonate". </p><p>The concept of centonization was borrowed from literary theory, and first applied to <a href="/facts/Gregorian_chant/hMPR367a">Gregorian chant</a> in 1934 by Dom Paolo Ferretti [it]; it has since also been applied to <a href="/facts/Byzantine_chant/EJTNdIfT">Byzantine chant</a>. </p>