Noun

(-)

The use of hocket in medieval music.

* {{quote-magazine, year=1978, author=William Dalglish, title=The Origin of the Hocket, date=Spring, volume=31, issue=1, page=3

, magazine=Journal of the American Musicological Society , publisher=University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society , passage=Hocketing was widely used in medieval music and Professor Sander's article provides a convenient survey of those uses.}}

Noun

(en noun)

hiccup

* 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:

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.

(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:

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."