Whip (instrument)

Whip (instrument)

In music, a whip is a type of musical instrument played by a percussionist that is used in modern orchestras, bands, and percussion ensembles. There are two types of whips. The first has two planks of wood connected together by a hinge, with a handle on each. The percussionist holds the instrument by the handles and hits the two pieces of wood together, creating a loud whip noise. The other type also has two planks of woods, one longer than the other, with one handle, connected with a spring hinge so it can be played with just one hand, though it cannot produce sounds as loud as a whip requiring both hands. This second type of whip is technically a separate instrument called a slapstick.

Useage in classical music

*Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition (the whip is used by the orchestraions of Maurice Ravel, Vladimir Jurowski and Henk de Vlieger's version for percussion essemble)
*Gustav Mahler: Symphonies No. 5 and 6
*John Coolidge Adams: Nixon in China (opera)
*Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G and L'heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour)
*Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.14 and No.15
*Leroy Anderson: Christmas Standard "Sleigh Ride," where the instrument is meant to imitate an actual whip on a horse.
*George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
*Aaron Copland: Rodeo (Buckaroo Holiday)
*William Walton: Belshazzar's feast
*Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons aux etolies, Saint-François d'Assise and Éclairs sur l'au-delà…
*Edgard Varèse: Ionisation
*William Mathias: Vistas, Laudi and In Arcadia
*Alun Hoddinott: Fioriture
*Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Noye's Fludde, Sinfonia da Requiem, St. Nicolas (Britten), Spring Symphony and War Requiem
*Michael Tippet: New Year (opera and suite version), The Knot Garden, The Ice Break, The Vision of Saint Augustine, Songs for Dov and The Shires Suite
*Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten
*Juan María Solare: Un ángel de hielo y fuego
*Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 1 (which begins with nine whip cracks punctuated by pauses)
*Alexander Vustin: Devil in Love
*Daron Hagen: Shining Brow
*Huw Watkins Piano Concerto
*Thomas Adès: Living Toys (the whip is played by the lead French horn player) and The Tempest
*Adam Guettel: The Light in the Piazza (musical)
*Frank Ticheli: Fortress
*James MacMillan: The Sacrifice

ee also

*Guban
*Clapper (musical instrument)


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