Whip (instrument)
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A whip being used in a marching band pit ensemble
Musical whip
A whip is an instrument played by a percussionist that is used in modern orchestras, bands, and percussion ensembles. There are two primary types of whips. The first one has two planks of wood hooked together with a hinge connecting them and handles on the outside. The percussionist places both hands in the handle 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 other which makes the 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 can.
Use in classical music
- 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), along with Pictures at an exhibition (orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's original work for piano)
- 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
- William Walton: Belshazzar's feast
- Olivier Messiaen: 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)
- Henk de Vlieger: Pictures at an exhibition (the whip is used in the version for percussion orchestra from Modest Mussorgsky's original work for piano)
- Alexander Vustin: Devil in Love
- Daron Hagen: Shining Brow
- Thomas Adès: The Tempest
- Adam Guettel: The Light in the Piazza (musical)
- James MacMillan: The Sacrifice
- Aaron Copland: Rodeo (Buckaroo Holiday)
See also
bg:Камшик (музикален инструмент) fr:Fouet (musique) it:Battacio ja:むち (楽器) uk:Бич-хлопавка
