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.
Series Editor's Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
(60)
Musica Recta and Musica Ficta
61
(34)
Pycard's Credo No. 76
95
(10)
Renaissance Counterpoint and Musica Ficta
105
(10)
Diatonic Ficta
115
(46)
Accidentals, Counterpoint, and Notation in Aaron's Aggiunta to the Toscanello in Musica
161
(38)
Diatonic Ficta Revisited: Josquin's Ave Maria in Context
199
(20)
Editing Early Music: The Dilemma of Translation
219
(22)
Some Factors in the Control of Consonance and Sonority: Successive Composition and the So(us Tenor
241
(14)
Pycard's Double Canon: Evidence of Revision?
255
(18)
Text Setting in Sacred Music of the Early 15th Century: Evidence and Implications
273
(28)
Resfacta and Cantare Super Librum
301
(20)
Bibliography
321
(8)
Permissions
329
(2)
Index
331
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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