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musica ficta: a standalone construct

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musicaficta1 CONSTRUCTMusica fictaBERGER · MUSICOLOGY

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Musicology

the singers' practice of adding unwritten accidentals to medieval and Renaissance polyphony according to rules of counterpoint.

In musicology, musica ficta refers to the singers' practice of adding unwritten accidentals to medieval and Renaissance polyphony according to rules of counterpoint. This meaning comes from Berger (1987) in Musica ficta.[1]

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  1. Berger, K. (1987). Musica ficta. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521543385

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