Brad Beyenhof wrote: This can be traced back to the days of plainchant, in which a device called "hocket" (French for "hiccup") was essentially a melody passed around between lines.
Right idea, but it was used in polyphonic music, not plainchant. (The term and practice in plainchant would be "antiphonal" chanting, which is rather different.) It was described by Wlater Odington (c. 1316). The main difference between, e.g., this and Tchaikovsky is that in hocket when voice one passes the melody to voice two, voice one remains silent instead of continuing in its own counterpoint.
John
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