hocket
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English
Etymology
From French hoquet (“hiccup”).
Noun
hocket (countable and uncountable, plural hockets)
- (music) In medieval music, a 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."
- (architecture) A narrow passageway or opening between buildings, typically designed to facilitate access or movement between separate architectural structures.
- Any small gap or opening; often used to describe a narrow space that allows for movement or connection between two areas.
Derived terms
References
- “hocket”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
German
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Verb
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