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单词 hocket
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Definition of hocket in English:

hocket

noun ˈhɒkɪtˈhäkit
Music
  • A spasmodic or interrupted effect in medieval and contemporary music, produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other.

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    Example sentencesExamples
    • For a moment there's a sense of a shared purpose, then individual louder notes stab through the surface, the hocket breaks down and we're back to the busy, buzzing heterophony.
    • Perhaps most energetic of all is the medley of hockets that opens the second CD.
    • It is based on a plainsong tenor, treated isorhythmically and incorporating some hocketing, while the other two voices have more complex hockets, the parts frequently crossing each other.
    • Clips of the menson flute ensemble of the Akan of Ghana, or of Kasena flute ensemble, both of which play in hocket, could have been enlisted to strengthen the West African musical examples in this section.

Derivatives

  • hocketing

  • noun
    Music
    • The number of performers makes it possible for Scott to include effects such as hocketing, in which a single melodic line in divided between more than one musician.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is based on a plainsong tenor, treated isorhythmically and incorporating some hocketing, while the other two voices have more complex hockets, the parts frequently crossing each other.
      • Music is unique; it has yodeling, hocketing and polyphonic harmonies.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French hoquet 'hiccup'; in Old French the sense was 'hitch, sudden interruption' which also existed in Middle English.

Definition of hocket in US English:

hocket

nounˈhäkit
Music
  • A spasmodic or interrupted effect in medieval and contemporary music, produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other.

    〔乐〕交替进行

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For a moment there's a sense of a shared purpose, then individual louder notes stab through the surface, the hocket breaks down and we're back to the busy, buzzing heterophony.
    • Clips of the menson flute ensemble of the Akan of Ghana, or of Kasena flute ensemble, both of which play in hocket, could have been enlisted to strengthen the West African musical examples in this section.
    • Perhaps most energetic of all is the medley of hockets that opens the second CD.
    • It is based on a plainsong tenor, treated isorhythmically and incorporating some hocketing, while the other two voices have more complex hockets, the parts frequently crossing each other.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French hoquet ‘hiccup’; in Old French the sense was ‘hitch, sudden interruption’ which also existed in Middle English.

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