A pair of notes played by this instrument marks the transition between the "Malagueña" (mah-lah-GWAY-nyah) and "Loreley" movements of Dmitri Shostakovich's fourteenth symphony.
A "multiple" variant of this instrument was designed for Benjamin Britten's church parable The Burning Fiery Furnace, inԀluenced by a Japanese instrument called the shakubyoshi (SHAH-koo-BYOH-shee). A pair of notes played by this instrument marks the transition between the "Malagueña" (mah-lah-GWAY-nyah) and "Loreley" movements of Dmitri Shostakovich's fourteenth symphony. Krzysztof Penderecki's  rst symphony opens with a solo for this instrument in which it plays a series of individual notes separated by pauses. In Mahler's   th symphony, this instrument appears only in the scherzo, in which the trumpets double it when it twice takes over the rhythm from the glockenspiel. Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major begins with a single note played by this instrument. For 10 points, name this percussion instrument consisting of two pieces of wood joined by a hinge, which imitates the characteristic "crack" of its namesake tool.
A "multiple" variant of this instrument was designed for Benjamin Britten's church parable The Burning Fiery Furnace, inԀluenced by a Japanese instrument called the shakubyoshi (SHAH-koo-BYOH-shee).
whip [or slapstick; or clapper; or Holzklapper]