In late medieval polyphony, the alternation of short melodic phrases (or even single notes) between two voices.
The 13th and 14th century term hocket refers to a composition or technique involving two voices in which when one voice sings, the other rests. In the 16th century, the term was applied to a certain type of cadence in which one voice, approaching the tonic from above, fails to reach its destination, and instead has a rest at least one beat long. The leading tone in another voice reaches the tonic and has at least a whole-note value, over which the theme of the next section begins.
a compositional device invented in the renaissance (from the Old English word for hiccough ) in which different voices sing the different notes in a melody line
a late-thirteenth- and fourteenth-century technique in which two or more voices fill in one another's silences to make a composite melody. The term may also be applied to a musical work which relies extensively on the technique, such as Machaut's Hoquetus David.
A rhythmic device which enlivens rhythm by putting rests in the middle of vocal lines; the alternation of very short melodic phrases, or single notes, between two voices, used in late medieval polyphony.
(hah'-kit) Consists of a rapid alternation of two (or more) melodies with single notes or short groups of notes;
In music hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. This is opposed to the alternation of phrases, or antiphony. In medieval practice of hocket, the melody in two voices moves (sometimes quickly) back-and-forth in such a manner that one voice is still while the other moves, and vice-versa.