Music A-Level
Harmonic Substitution and Contrafacts
What Harmonic Substitution and Contrafacts means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Harmonic Substitution and Contrafacts
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Chord substitutions, extended chords and altered chords create dense harmonic progressions, often with new, complex melodies over standard chord changes.
Topics that use Harmonic Substitution and Contrafacts
- Area of study 5: Jazz - Named artists (AQA A-Level)
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- Extended Forms
- Genre fusion
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