Hi Guys

I think the only exceptions I can think of to your well reasoned and well taken points is the instance of the contrafact.

On the surface of it, many would say there's no issue here.
Looking at jazz history and the kind of melodies composed over chord progressions to well known standards its clear that many of them bear little or no relation to their original inspirations and indeed qualify as full blown improvisations on the harmonies in many cases.

But what if someone were to post a so called 'original' composition that used the melodic outline and form of a well known song changing a note here or there perhaps adding some additional notes but not in a way that really disguised it's identity? Perhaps a chord or two is changed but again the functional structure is retained with all the points of resolution clearly following the original tune.

Assuming the tune was well enough known to be recognizable in the first instance, what would be the attitude of the forum towards this kind of re-creation? And would such a tune qualify as a contrafact at all?


Alan

Last edited by alan S.; 05/25/13 06:00 AM.