Singing “to the Tune of”: A Study and Musical Recreation of contrafacta (ca. 1700-ca. 1830)
Abstract
This article analyses contrafacta from Catalan manuscript songbooks from the eighteenth and early decades of the nineteenth centuries. The objective of the article is to recreate the music of these texts, for which there is no extant notated music and to understand how the contrafactum technique was developed in this repertoire. To this effect, a corpus of songbooks containing contrafacta was chosen and five of the most widely used tunes were studied in detail: Marizápalos, Fantasmas, Amable, Estopa and Baviera. Apart from examining the origins of the musical settings of these tunes, which ultimately became popular, I have located their melodies. Finally, a metric analysis of the texts and a formal analysis of the melodies has enabled the musical-textual relationship to be analysed in each tune and possible correlations proposed.
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