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hocket

In music, a device in medieval vocal and instrumental music, consisting of phrases when broken up by rests, in such a way that when one part is silent another fills the gap. A hocket is also a piece written in this style.

The word is similar to ‘hiccup’ and derived from the French equivalent hoquet.



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Klaus Schoning had heard some of the multilingual collages from this work (rounds, hockets, canons might be a better description, to borrow from the musical world) on another occasion in Germany when I was able to play it to him.
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