Title: Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0815334974
ISBN 13: 9780815334972
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine

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Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics. Also includes 25 musical examples.

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Margaret Bent is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and has been a key figure in the debates about late medieval and Renaissance music for nearly thirty years.

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