The division of a melody into separate parts for different voices or instruments, resulting in a kind of cross-talk.

A Medieval practice of composition in which two voices would move in such a manner that one would be still while the other moved and vice-versa. Sometimes this was achieved by taking a single melody a [..]

In late medieval polyphony, the alternation of short melodic phrases (or even single notes) between two voices.

The 13th and 14th century term hocket refers to a composition or technique involving two voices in which when one voice sings, the other rests. In the 16th century, the term was applied to a certain type of cadence in which one voice, approaching the tonic from above, fails to reach its destination, and instead has a rest at least one beat long. Th [..]

hiccup * '''1977''', Lloyd Ultan, ''Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance'', U of Minnesota Press, page 91: *: All of these tend to produce something of a hiccoug [..]