Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: An arbitrary interruption of a voice-part by rests, so as to produce a broken, spasmodic effect, frequently in two voices or groups of voices alternately. A composition in which this effect is frequently employed.
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- noun
hiccup - noun music In
medieval music, hocket is therhythmic linear technique using thealternation 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.
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Examples
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The five instrumentalists who played many different instruments my favorite was the "nun's fiddle," a long, skinny, one-stringed wooden box played with a bow that produced a nasty raspberry of a sound in the course of the evening did so expertly, although the two horns sounded indecisive in the fast give-and-take "hocket" of the Dufay "Gloria," and the whole well-paced production moved smoothly.
Waverly Consort's medieval sound tests modern-day audiences Joan Reinthaler 2010
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Its Amen is particularly spectacular and consists of a long melisma with much use of the hocket technique.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Pope John of Avignon issued a decree condemning the Ars Nova in 1324, forbidding a practice that, according to him, had given rise to an excess of virtuosity; the abuse of the hocket technique had made the sung texts incomprehensible and was also very little suited to calm meditation.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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It shares with the late motets a solo introduction, and like most ars nova motets its periodic rhythmic structure is clearly marked by hocket passages.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Without him, the nation would curl up in a fetal position at this point (and then the hocket sticks would come out).
In Big Speech, Obama Begins Prepping Voters For Challenges Ahead 2009
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We nearly began to like Lindsay again, that is until she flashed her hot-pink ham-hocket to paparazzi and we became convinced she had alien-genitale.
The 10 Best 10 Best Lists of 2006, #2: The Top 10 Celebrity Beefs | Best Week Ever 2006
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Actually, there's a weird moment in "Any Colour You Like," after the opening passage on the organ, I was trying to represent the stereo hocket between the two guitars, and I had to do it with mono sound.
G4 TV - TheFeed 2010
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The Blackhawks are back, but major-league hocket isn't
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Blackhawks are back, but major-league hocket isn't
Chicago Reader 2010
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I'm not that good at math but that means an astonishing 70\% of Canada couldn't give a damn about the gold medal game, or hocket at all okay.
The Vancouverite 2009
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