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musica ficta(Latin; “feigned music”) In medieval and Renaissance music, the practice of inserting unnotated chromatic notes (see chromaticism) during performances. According to treatises of the times, it was left to the performers to “correct” certain intervals. Which intervals were to be changed, and how and under what circumstances, varied over time. This practice was responsible for the introduction of accidentals (sharps, flats, naturals) into musical notation. It also influenced the evolution of the major and minor keys on which most Western music came to be based, for it modified the medieval church modes to resemble the major and minor scales. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | They consider such topics as scienta ficta, avoiding debate and the immobilization of labor process study, tellings and re-tellings of an enchantment foundation narrative, vagina dentata and explorations of the feminine demon in organizations, and organizing the living dead. XI, makes a case for performance with downward pitch spirals via the continuing application of diatonic ficta, and extrapolates thereby evidence for the more widespread use of this practice. Que quidem vel magna ex parte falsa sunt--quod in multis horum similibus, ubi in nostrum orbem delata sunt, patuit--vel certe ipsis auctoribus incomperta, sed propter absentiam vel credita promptius vel ficta licentius; que denique, quamvis vera essent, nichil penitus ad beatam vitam. |
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