Hocket vs Cocket - What's the difference?
hocket | cocket |
hiccup
* 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
(music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
* 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
(UK, obsolete) a document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.
(UK, obsolete) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
(obsolete) A measure for bread.
As nouns the difference between hocket and cocket
is that hocket is hiccup while cocket is (uk|obsolete) a document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.As an adjective cocket is
(obsolete) pert; saucy.hocket
English
(Hocket)Noun
(en noun)- All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
- Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."
Derived terms
* hocketing * hockettorReferences
* ----cocket
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Blount)