Whip (instrument)
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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.
[edit] 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
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