The Dreaded P.D.Q. Bach
Friday, January 15th, 2010 at
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This four disc collection (Volume 1) of the pre-digital recordings of P.D.Q. Bach is excellent! P.D.Q. is the Anti-Mozart, and devilishly dis-fun-ctional at that. And for comedy music, the upside to Professor Peter Schickele is that the music is actually memorable and quite good on its own. The more you know about classical music or music theory in general, the funnier this music becomes. After listening to the oratorio The Seasonings, tell me you didn’t roll your eyes at the trio “Bide thy thyme”, remember the last football game you attended during the Finale, or find yourself singing “Open sesame seeds” about an hour or so later. The Unbegun Symphony is at least as exciting as the sum of its forty-odd, far more illustrious parts. Why pay for a music appreciation course when you can cram it all in just under 9 minutes. I remain ever-so-slightly disappointed to this day that Mozart didn’t think of the same key change in Symphony 41. The Pervertimento is priceless. Beethoven’s Fifth with running commentary is probably one of the best routines on record. The Schleptet lays a glorious egg and the two operas are irreverant and inane respectively. Oh yes, and don’t forget to cringe during “Please, kind sir”. The remastered sound is excellent compared to their first digital release. … I … am having to wait until Vanguard releases the second volume so that I can have a decent copy of the Missa Hilarious. However, in the meantime this collection will do just fine.
Having indulged in the works of Prof. Schickele whom I call the “Weird Al” of Classical Music (Sorry, Al) for ten years now, I give this collection thunderous applause, especially for the fact that it FINALLY includes the “Sanka Cantata!” However, it’s my personal opinion that it pulled up one album too soon. Had it included “Portrait of P.D.Q. Bach,” there would be no need to wait for Vanguard or Schickele or whoever to remaster the rest of the Vanguard PDQ catalogue. But, since it doesn’t, I’m noting my objection here.
I like the extended liner notes, though.
What can I say? These attempts to poke fun at classical music and aficionados of the genre are silly, puerile, well-informed, beloved by said aficionados, and utterly hilarious. With a style of humor that is something like a cross between Garrison Keillor, Victor Borge and Monty Python, “Professor” Peter Schickele has been perpetrating the P.D.Q. Bach phenomenon since 1959. “Researching” and sometimes even dressing up as the alleged “last and least” of Johann Sebastian Bach’s many children, Schickele has composed, conducted and performed send-ups of various composers and musical styles. This four CD set compiles some the best (or should I say “worst”?) of his efforts. Included are “The O.K. Chorale”, “The Unbegun Symphony”, “My Bonnie Lass, She Smelleth”, “The Seasonings”, “Schleptet in E flat minor”, “Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments”, “Concerto for Horn and Hardart”, and my two personal favorites: “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony” (with commentary by sports analysts discussing the “competition” between the conductor and the orchestra) and the hilarious cantata “Iphigenia in Brooklyn”. I can remember my father rolling on the floor in hysterics upon first hearing “Iphigenia”, and anyone who is familiar with the Baroque oratorio style of such ubiquitous works as Handel’s “Messiah” or J.S. Bach’s cantatas will undoubtedly howl too at all the “in jokes”. If you’re serious about Baroque or classical music, do yourself a favor–let your hair down, get un-serious, and listen to these CDs every once in a while. And may every genre of music be fortunate enough to have a “P.D.Q. Bach” invented for it!
Make sausage out of it. Oh no, that's fat-back. This wasn't a cooking question, was it? <snicker>
Seriously, you should try doing exercises like windmills or cross-knee-touch situps.
it’s good that you are making a video without the shorts, it would be better though. lol
It is musical satire. Peter Schickele is a composer with an alter ego called “P.D.Q. Bach”. Around this fictitious character he creates a world of musical parody, imitating all style and composers (music all written by Schickele himself). He goes as far as to make ‘documentaries’ like this one.
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I'ma take a bitch out back and beat her PDQ.
I just scrobbled several pieces today (May 28), including “Iphigenia in Brooklyn” and “New Horizons in Music Appreciation.”
Come bach from the dark side! #TeamMachan..
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just because she didn't copy Bram Stoker doesn't mean that they fail.
and developer of minimal music, along with LaMonte Young, of minimal music and his name is Terry Riley. Terry is the Bach of our time.
Tom Leher FTW. I still have an album of his. Dated, but great stuff.
“When he listened to a rich and many-voiced fugue, he could soon say, after the first entries of the subjects, what contrapuntal devices it would be possible to apply, and which of them the composer by rights ought to apply”
One name which you probably should look up are Baron Gottfried von Swieten. This nobleman lived in the late Eighteenth Century, but was quite a connoisseur of music of the early Eighteenth Century. He sponsored Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, but only under the condition that these three composers got a thorough education in the music of Bach and Handel.
You should probably study the opinions of later composers regarding Bach's music. Swieten apparently succeeded in infusing Beethoven with zeal for Bach's music. Beethoven made a pun on Bach's last name, which means "brook," by saying that his name should not be Brook, but Ocean.
Also, check out the Prague Symphony by Mozart. The last movement of this symphony is a fugue. In the mind of many people, and possibly in the mind of your professor, "fugue" and "Bach" are synonymous.
Until Mendelssohn's time, Bach's music was familiar only to the conservatory clique. Mendelssohn made his music familiar to the general public by delivering a whiz bang performance of the Saint Matthew Passion.
You may never guess it from Chopin's music, but Chopin was an admirer of Bach. He once locked himself up in a room for a month with nothing to practice on but Bach. Chopin made an attempt at composing a music one time, but it's not the best fugue in the world:
Baroque music got imitated in Twentieth Century music a lot. Hindemith was a venerable scholar of Bach's music, and Hindemith was a superb contrapuntalist. (I don't know which is cause and which is effect.) There is a fugue in Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler.
Shostakovich wrote a series of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, obviously inspired by the Well-Tempered Clavier.
The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos composed a series of compositions, entitled Bachianas Brasileiras, in which he speculated on how Bach's music would sound if he were born in Brazil.
I almost forgot my own composition for lower brass and piano, which I entitled Bachianas Americanas:
Here is a summary of my opinion about Bach.
I hope you find something in it which can help you:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=At59lL1KC4jjVpkCOI0.cjrty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090330194741AApJj93&show=7#profile-info-YYCjoqMvaa
One needs to have a knowledge of WHAT is being parodied, as well as a skewed sense of humor to find Peter Schickele stuff funny. Not everybody likes of *gets* Monty Python, either – or Adam Sandler, or many other comedians. If you have sung enough madrigals, then "My Bonnie Lass" might be funny – if not, no chance. There are MANY niche humorists – Trevor Wye has a presentation he does with a bunch of historical flutes, a bicycle pump, and a flute that he carves our of a carrot, while on stage. If you have sat thru enough seminars on Historical Performance Practice – and are a professional flutist – you will fall off your chair when you see this. If you are NOT – you find the whole thing boring and dumb. Oh well.
I have owned every singled PDQ Bach album (yeah, vinyl first . . ) since they came out. I also own things like old Alfred Hitchcock movies, Lovejoy, and The Prisoner – you can't explain THAT to anyone younger than you, either. De gustibus non est disputandum (there's no accounting for taste.)
Almost! Well-tempered Clavier (not to be confused with PDQ’s “Ill-tempered Clavier”), first book, fugue in D major.
Dúné im Interview bei Motor.de: Dúné im ausführlichen Interview über Tokio Hotel, Johann Sebastian Bach und Mondla…
Although, I must admit, the best outcome will be the P.D.Q. Bach version.
Our Hour b/w Pop Corn Sack Disc Is Very Good Plus Labels Are Excellent Courtesy of Wikipedia : Spike Jones (left) with Marilyn Monroe and Ken Murray, 1952 Lindley Armstrong “Spike” Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and ridiculous vocals. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the USA and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue. There is a clear line of influence from the Hoosier Hot Shots, Freddie Fisher and his Schnickelfritzers and the Marx Brothers to Spike Jones — and to Stan Freberg, Gerard Hoffnung, Peter Schickele’s P.D.Q. Bach, The Goons, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Billy Barty…
there were small ensembles, chamber music, strings, harpichord, brass instruments BUT>…..
All musicians were MEN!!! All singers were MEN..
Back then, musicians were beheaded for giving a poor performance or for making critical errors in the music (like the tritone…..f to a Bb). That was considered the "Devils" tone. Not good!!! It was very risky back then to be a musician.
You can listen to early music. There isn't too much written but there are some out there. It was very tonal. There were hundreds of years where music didn't change at all. There were no soloists….and most of the music was making music clear….no vibrato at all in voice.
Also, the rhythm wasn't like it is today. Now adays, we have that strong 4/4 rhythm. Most music has that pulse. Back then, it was in groups for 4 then 3, 4 then 3. It was flowing but not like today.
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Indeed it is Metal. . . But a different breed of metal. I’m glad I’m not the only metal head that appreciates other music, nonetheless, can see how something like this truly IS metal.
The first person is right…
It only took me a couple of hours tho…it definitely depends on the length of your hair and its texture…
remember that when you sit in that chair, you are not getting dreads, you are starting them, and that is totally a process which will get annoying sometimes but you should be fine with just a tad of willpower.
good luck.
I cannot believe it! I actually knew quite a bit of that list! I wonder which has taught me more, reading about the Kiwis or talking with them. (I have had a facsination with the Kiwis for years!)
We're done with Proms, so what now? Oh yes, there's that guy called P D Q Bach – aren't we doing his "Missa…
Bach Double Concerto (CMIIW) mp3.
I’d forgotten about PDQ Bach since I was a kid. I’m on a mission now.
Well done Matt – great work – ORICHALCUM1
yeah baby oil works but don't scrub too hard!
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Try these three sites for something different. The sites below are for the composers you mentioned. Good luck.
parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-11/thismonth/feature.asp
vintagemusicbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=2483&CLSN_2982=…
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/song.html?id=86135&song=Ma+belle
I know all your studying will pay off big time!!! I admire your dedication to that dreaded, boring book!!!
Not I. I currently think of Buzz as a less interesting FriendFeed (possibly because it’s less mature).
Glass is a genius!
nice vid i heard this in music class it was funny
He is real in the sense that Mr.Peter Shikele created him and sometimes the myth transcends reality
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Do you have a sunroof? If you do the draintube that goes down the passenger side is plugged.
Yes, you should get a couple free copies, but I also had to bug LJ before they actually sent them. (And hee, Playstation, that really *is* cool.)