Imbal is a feature of Javanese gamelan that has been compared to this Western technique. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this technique originating in medieval French music, in which a melody is split between multiple voices that each sound intermittently.
ANSWER: hocketing [or hoquet or hoketus]
[10m] Hocket was typically used in these polyphonic vocal pieces. Renaissance examples of these compositions include Thomas Tallis’s Spem in alium.
ANSWER: motets
[10e] The earliest motets are those named for this cathedral, written while it was being built around the year 1200. Léonin (“LAY-oh-nan”) and Perotin (“PEH-roh-tan”) were members of the namesake school of this main cathedral in Paris.
ANSWER: Notre-Dame de Paris [accept Notre-Dame School]