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- noun The use of
hocket in medieval music.
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Examples
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Mr. RATLIFF: This very old device called hocketing, which is where you have — let's say you have a row of trumpet players, and they're going to play a melody.
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Several played the konet, the signature tin horns that are made in Haiti, in a rhythmic style known as hocketing that was always followed by a cheer.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"Stillness Is the Move," using the many centuries-old technique of rhythmic alternation called hocketing, making the album sound even more musically sophisticated.
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(Soundbite of song, "Sunlight") Ms. GARBUS: (Singing) (Unintelligible) CHRISTGAU: The tUnE-yArDs track that first caught my ear was "Hatari," which begins with Garbus 'solo version of the hocketing vocal technique of Congo's Mbuti pygmies.
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The Credo is notable for its ‘hocketing’ passages alternating short notes and short rests in the upper voices and for its two-note imitations, all of which provide an illusion of a regular repeating rhythmic structure such as would occur in a motet.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Sometimes a concert can leave your head ringing with sounds, and as I write mine is still reverberating to the hocketing duet between trumpet and trombone in one of the pieces from Gerald Barry's new work 'Feldman's Sixpenny Editions'.
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Boucher plays games with panning her sounds - whether it's hocketing her own vocal "oohs" from channel to channel or dragging a sound of scraping metal from right to left in "Circumambient."
News 2012
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The tUnE-yArDs track that first caught my ear was "Hatari," which begins with Garbus 'solo version of the hocketing vocal technique of Congo's Mbuti pygmies.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The tUnE-yArDs track that first caught my ear was "Hatari," which begins with Garbus 'solo version of the hocketing vocal technique of Congo's Mbuti pygmies.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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