"The Contrafact Book" is a collection of jazz contrafacts available under a public copyright license.
It mimics "The Real Book", which in turn got its name after a pun on "The Fake Book".
The goal is to get rid of the music royalties to use the standard repertoire for public gigs, recordings and the like.
Take (your) part
There are hundreds of standards waiting to be (re)contrafacted.
Here's some hints: BORDER-OH.txt.
If you have nothing better to do and would like to mangle an evergreen favourite, send your contrafact to contrafact@altervista.org, indicating the source, including:
- score: lead sheet attached in MusicXML format, complete with author, title and copyright & license notice (Creative Commons or similar);
- demo: link to a publicly accessible (soundcloud, youtube, etc) recording, complete with harmonization.
At your option you can also include the native format (Finale/Sibelius/MuseScore/etc) file for the score as well as any extra material or information you'd like to be published.
Please refer to -> Lenza fine for a complete example, and feel free to send a message for any clarification.
Copyright & Licenses
- The Contrafact Book (this website and all its materials, including, without limitation,
its design, code, script, text and artwork, except what's listed below)
is copyright © 2017 Attilio Pavone.
You can share and reuse it under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- Musical works available on this site (including, without limitation, sheet music, lyrics and other texts) are copyrighted by their contributors and licensed as noted on the linked page (e.g.: tune.php?num=1).
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Credits
- soundcloud and facebook icons: by Maciej Aniśko - licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0;
- youtube icon: by Zlatko Najdenovski - licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0;
- extern-link and cancel icons: by icon8 - licensed under Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0;
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