tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post247303455132566516..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: HocketBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-32767490036717477442023-04-11T08:07:17.529-05:002023-04-11T08:07:17.529-05:00Thanks, Liam, for your learnéd observations. It to...Thanks, Liam, for your learnéd observations. It took eleven years, but this post finally got a comment.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-25035702276463637462023-04-10T16:21:53.022-05:002023-04-10T16:21:53.022-05:00I’m surprised actually at how much attention hocke...I’m surprised actually at how much attention hocket has garnered as time has gone on. There’s even a guy who says that Hocket was invented 80,000 years ago in Africa. Just how he comes to know so confidently about anything, let alone hocketing, that went on 80,000 years ago in Africa is a little puzzling. I think there is some thing staring us in the face that we have failed to recognize. Ernest Sanders, when the origin paper came out, refused to believe that the hocket could have developed from other exotic ways up performing music. He wanted to trace it to ONE theorist and to ONE place, the Notre Dame school and nowhere else. He refused to believe or to see how music could evolve from the rearrangement of preexistent music A special way of playing. music — ergo hocket — one need, look no further than the situation with ragtime, where a piece would be taken and treated — “ragged” — the rhythm of the piece being treated in syncopation. Rarely did the syncopation go across the bar line and rarely, before the advent of music of the late 19th century specifically called ragtime, e.g., Scott Joplin. Scott Joplin’s music is not jazz, but the practice of ragging, adding syncopation, to an existing piece, which, in all likelihood coexisted with an early improvisatory music that existed together with ragtime constituted the basis for jazz, So also with hocket. Fisher was onto something when he traced the origin of the word hocket to the Arabic word for rhythm. More or less the same thing went down with hockeing that happened with ragtime. I think it’s Hironymous Grocheio. who says the Hocket and other kinds of music that, as I remember, he doesn’t name, is much beloved of young people for its sprightliness, and presumable danceability. I think it’s a mistake to limit the hocket the way it has been done, especially by some more recent writer who make it some sort of profound theological arcane secret-communication music. Its what it is. Music that’s lively and fun. It was probably only taken over into more serious church music from two things, the first crusade and the fun of letting your hair down with hocketing. I notice that no one points out that one meaning of a Hocket was a girl who liked to have a good time.<br />Liam Allan-DalgleishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com