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randomsurfer
Since: Jan, 2001
8th Jan, 2016 08:25:27 AM
In the Style of is similar.
Do we have a trope yet for singing one song to the tune of another? (For example, setting new words to familiar music for parody/appropriation/filk purposes; setting familiar words to new music in an attempt to make the words fresh again; or swapping the music and lyrics of two preexisting songs just for the fun of it.)
There are a lot of examples in the "Common Meter Tune-Swapping" section of the Common Meter page, but that list is necessarily limited to lyrics written in the titular meter. The actual act of tune-swapping seems tropeworthy, though.
(Where credit is due: the term I used to describe this phenomenon, "One Song to the Tune of Another", is the name of a round in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.)