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musica ficta
[ myoo-zi-kuh fik-tuh; Latin moo-si-kah fik-tah ]
noun
- the use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of musica ficta1
First recorded in 1795–1805, musica ficta is from Medieval Latin mūsica ficta, literally, “fashioned music”
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