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In music, a vocal composition in which the original words have been replaced by new ones, either secular words substituted for sacred, or vice versa. In the 16th century the Reformation was responsible for several changes of this kind, especially from Latin to vernacular words in the conversion of plainsong melodies to hymn-tunes.



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It was these forms of song that were to continue to be played in the following century, and sometimes lived on in rather modified form, often as contrafacta (with new texts) into the Renaissance period.
The music of the Bohemian Middle Ages by Matousek, Lukas / Czech Music
Richard Freedman examines three published collections of contrafacta chansons by Orlando di Lasso: Thomas Vautrollier's Recueil du mellange d'Orlande (London, 1570), Jean Pasquier's Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus (La Rochelle, 1575 and 1576), and Simon Goulart's Thresor de musique d'Orlande ([Geneva], 1576, 1582, and 1594).
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: ... by Powers, Katherine / Renaissance Quarterly
A likely avenue of contact with Monteverdi's music would have been through the Latin contrafacta of his madrigals made for Cardinal Federico Borromeo by Aquilino Coppini and dedicated to a Milanese nun (65).
Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian ... by Weaver, Elissa / Renaissance Quarterly
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