Dictionary

hocket en · NOUN

Etymology

From French hoquet (“hiccup”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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." 1977, Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
2. (countable, uncountable) A narrow passageway or opening between buildings, typically designed to facilitate access or movement between separate architectural structures.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any small gap or opening; often used to describe a narrow space that allows for movement or connection between two areas.

Forms

Deriveds

hockettor · hocketor · hocketing · hocketed