What is "musica ficta"

n. (context music English) The use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.

Musica ficta (from Latin, "false", "feigned", or "fictitious" music) was a term used in European music theory from the late 12th century to about 1600 to describe pitches, whether notated or added at the time of performance, that lie outside the system of musica recta or musica vera ("correct" or "true" music) as defined by the hexachord system of Guido of Arezzo .

Musica Ficta (Spain) is a Spanish early music ensemble founded in 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena, who is also founder and director of Ensemble Fontegara, and of the record label Enchiriadis.

The current ensemble includes:

• Musica Ficta: Eva Juárez, Marta Infante, Alicia Berri, Miguel Bernal, Luis Vicente. Mallavibarrena (percussion and director)
• Ensemble Fontegara: Marie Nishiyama (renaissance harp), Rafael Bonavita (vihuela and renaissance guitar)

Musica Ficta is a Danish choral group founded in 1996 by conductor and composer Bo Holten.

Musica Ficta is a Latin musical term for feigned music.

Musica Ficta may also refer to:

• Musica Ficta (Colombia) or Música Ficta, an early music ensemble founded in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1988
• Musica Ficta (Spanish ensemble), a Spanish early music ensemble founded in 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena
• Musica Ficta (Danish ensemble), a Danish choral group founded in 1996 by Bo Holten
• Musica Ficta (Italian ensemble), a musical ensemble
• Musica Ficta, a novel by Anne Kennedy

Ensemble Musica Ficta was an Italian early-music ensemble active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group consisted of Bruno Ré, Paolo Capirci, Fabio Menditto, Federico Marincola, Andrea Damiani, with tenor Marco Beasley.