This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past thirty years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the state of scholarship and responding to critics.

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

1. Musica Recta and Musica Ficta 2. Pycard's Credo No. 76 3. Renaissance Counterpoint and Musica Ficta 4. Diatonic Ficta: Accidentals, Counterpoint and Notation in Aaron's Aggiunta to the Toscanello in Musica 5. Dicatonic Ficta Revisited: Josquion's Ave Maria in Context 6. Editing Early Music: The Dilemma of Translation 7.
Some Factors in the Control of Consonance and Sonority: Successive Composition and the Solus Tenor 8. Pycard's Double Canon: Evidence of Revision? 9. Text Setting in Sacred
Music of the Early 15th Century: Evidence and Implications 10. Resfacta and Cantare super librum