Música Ficta (Colombia)
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- See musica fictaMusica fictaMusica ficta was a term used in European music theory from the late 12th century to about 1600 to describe any pitches, whether notated or to be added by performers in accordance with their training, that lie outside the system of musica recta or musica vera as defined by the hexachord system of...
for the Latin musical term, feigned music.
- There are five early music ensembles with a similar name:
- Musica Ficta (Argentina) founded 1975 by Rubén Soifer.
- Musica Ficta (Colombia) founded in 1988 - the subject of this article.
- Musica Ficta (Spain)Musica Ficta (Spain)* Ensemble Fontegara: Marie Nishiyama , Rafael Bonavita -Raúl Mallavibarrena:Mallavibarrena studied guitar with Carmen Ross at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, flute with Giulio Capocaccia, Music Theory with Alvaro Zaldivar, Chamber Music with Emilio Moreno, Gregorian chant with Ismael...
founded 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena. - Musica Ficta (Denmark) founded 1996 by Bo HoltenBo HoltenBo Holten is a Danish composer and conductor.He has been the principal conductor for the vocal ensembles Ars Nova and Musica Ficta , as well as guest-conductor for the BBC Singers...
. - Musica Ficta (New Zealand) founded 2007 by Chris Burcin and others.
- The accent on the word música would indicate that the name is to be read as Spanish not Latin. (The adjective ficta is the same in both Latin and Spanish). The Argentinian, Colombian, and Spanish, Música Ficta groups all use the accent on their homepages.
Música Ficta is an early music ensemble founded in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, in 1988. The ensemble is specialized in the performance of Latin-American and Spanish renaissance and baroque music. It has performed in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Far and Middle East. It has recorded for the labels Jade (France), Arion (France), Centaur (USA) and Arts Music (Germany).
The ensemble has recorded various unedited or scarcely known works from Latin-American musical archives, such as Bogotá, Mexico, Guatemala, Lima and Chiquitos (Bolivia). The group is also known for bringing to light unedited pieces by major 17th century Spanish composers such as Sebastián Durón
Sebastián Durón
-Life and career:Sebastian Duron was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain, and was taught by his brother Diego Duron, also a composer...
, Juan de Navas
Juan de Navas
Juan de Navas was a Spanish baroque composer and harpist. As court harpist to Charles II of Spain he was sought as approver of Torres y Martínez Bravo's treatise on thoroughbass.-Works, editions and recordings:...
and José Marín
José Marín
José Marín is a retired Spanish race walker.-Achievements:-External links:*...
.
Current members of the group are: Jairo Serrano (voice, percussion), Carlos Serrano
Carlos Serrano
Carlos Serrano is a recorder and early woodwinds player born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1963. After recorder studies at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Mannes College of Music in New York with Philip Levin, and with Pedro Memelsdorff in Italy, he graduated from the Early Music Institute at Indiana...
(early woodwinds), Julián Navarro (vihuela de mano, baroque guitar, theorbo) and Elisabeth Wright (harpsichord). The members have taught mainly the Early Music Institute of Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.
Discography
- 1996, p. 2001 - Romances & Villancicos from Spain and the New World. Éditions Jade No. 198-142-2 (France).
- 1999, p. 2000 - De Antequera sale un moro - Music of the Christian, Moorish and Jewish Spain c. 1492. Éditions Jade No. 74321-79256-2 (France).
- 2003, p. 2006 - Sepan todos que muero - Music of Peasants and Courtiers in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 17th-18th Centuries. Centaur Records CRC 2797 (USA).
- 2005, p. 2006 - Esa Noche Yo Bailá - Feast and Devotion in High Peru of the 17th Century. Arts Music No. 47727-8 (Germany).
- 2007, p. 2008 - Del mar del alma - Music and Poetry in Colonial Bogota (17th-18th c.). Arion ARN68789 (France)