English Dictionary

hocket

noun

(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.

The hocket is a technique used in medieval music.

意味（1）

(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.

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.