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- noun Plural form of
contrafact .
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Here the aim is not to “represent” a world or give us truths or beauties, but to offer contrafacts, leaps and dis-junctions, particles that reverse, coalesce, echo.
Erin Moure reads Norma Cole Lemon Hound 2009
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Many, if not most, of these were contrafacts i.e, adapted from existing chants, such as the invitatory antiphons Venite omnes and Regem sepulcrum beati Iacobi.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Interestingly, none of the contrafacts of this classic are better-known than the original, but the fact that so many brilliant derivations have been created has helped burnish Gershwin's reputation as a genius.
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