Hocket vs Docket - What's the difference?
hocket | docket |
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:
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
(legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
An agenda of things to be done.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
To make an entry in a docket.
To label a parcel etc.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between hocket and docket
is that hocket is hiccup while docket is (obsolete) a summary; a brief digest.As a verb docket is
to make an entry in a docket.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
* ----docket
English
(wikipedia docket)Noun
(en noun)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- to docket goods
- to docket letters and papers
- (Chesterfield)
- judgments regularly docketed