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. I personally have used this a lot, sometimes to the annoyance of performers. Once I had a flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone perform a fairly quick descending chromatic scale in which they each traded off, one note at a time. However, because *I* played the clarinet part in the first performance and was making myself do it too, they didn't have much to complain about.
------------- Brad Beyenhof
An entire movement of my _Procrustean Concerto for the Bb Clarinet_ is hocketed from beginning to end, because it is a set of variations on a Chilean folk theme that was originally played on a set of double-panpipes, on wh. hocketing is an integral part of the technique. To get the maximum mileage out of the hockets, I have the violin sections separated...
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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
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