/myooh"zi keuh fik"teuh/ ; Lat. /mooh"si kah' fik"tah/
the use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
Also, musica falsa /myooh"zi keuh fawl"seuh/ ; Lat. /mooh"si kah' fahl"sah/ .
[ 1795-1805; musica ficta, lit., fashioned music ]