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(Greek: mousike [techne] > Latin: musica, music; originally an art of the Muses)
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“musica”
musica ficta, musica falsa
1. The introduction by a performer of sharps, flats , or other accidentals to avoid unacceptable intervals.
2. The use of chromatically altered tones (the use of all 12 tones, especially for heightened expressivity) in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries or medieval and Renaissance music.
2. The use of chromatically altered tones (the use of all 12 tones, especially for heightened expressivity) in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries or medieval and Renaissance music.
Contrapuntal
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musico-, music- +
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