parody
31PARODY, HEBREW — Parody in Early Hebrew Literature Parody is the use of a recognizable literary form as a vehicle to ridicule or mock something or someone. The writer takes a well known, serious work as his model and invests it with new and amusing contents, at… …
32Parody music — Parody music, or musical parody, involves changing or recycling existing (usually very well known) musical ideas or lyrics or copying the peculiar style of a composer or artist, or even a general style of music. Although the result is often funny …
33Parody science — Parody science, sometimes called spoof science, is a parody of science. One parody science can make a parody of several branches of science at the same time. Parody sciences have a variety of purposes, ranging from social commentary to making… …
34Parody religion — Part of a series on Irreligion …
35Parody advertisement — A parody advertisement is a fictional advertisement for a non existent product, either done within another advertisement for an actual product, or done simply as parody of advertisements used either as a way of ridiculing or drawing negative… …
36Parody mass — A parody mass is a musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of another pre existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular chanson, as part of its melodic material. It is… …
37Parody film — A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. The main conventions for this genre are:* Sarcasm * Huge stereotyping, e.g., the dumb blonde, the hardboiled detective * Mocking other films or scenes from… …
38Parody Mass — A polyphonic setting of the Roman Catholic mass ordinary prayers that employs a preexisting polyphonic composition, usually a motet, less often a secular French chanson or Italian madrigal, as a structural pattern and source of melodic motives …
39parody mass — noun : a 16th century mass having the text of the mass added to musical material borrowed from an existing composition (as a motet or madrigal) * * * parody Mass, (in medieval music) a Mass in which parts of some other composer s chanson or motet …
40parody — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, agile wit, anamorphosis, ape, bad likeness, belie, black humor, botch, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, comedy, copy, copying, corruption, counterfeiting, daub, debasement, deride, disguise, distort …
