musica ficta

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English

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin mūsica ficta (literally fashioned music).

Noun

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musica ficta (uncountable)

  1. (music) The use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.

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