And now for some REAL musical comedy.
PDQ Bach was, of course, a scion of Johann Sebastian Bach:
P. D. Q. Bach was born in Leipzig on March 31, 1742,[2] the son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach; the twenty-first of Johann's twenty children.[1] According to Schickele, Bach's parents did not bother to give their youngest son a real name, and settled on "P. D. Q." instead. The only earthly possession Johann Sebastian Bach willed to his son was a kazoo.
P.D.Q. attributed his frequent headaches to his having been christened in a shipyard rather than a church.
Defined the doctrine of Originality Through Incompetence.
In preconcert lectures, Schickele joked that P. D. Q. Bach influenced Beethoven's famous deafness: Beethoven came to dread P. D. Q. Bach and his music so greatly that Beethoven resorted to stuffing coffee grounds into his ears whenever he saw P. D. Q. Bach coming.
In a running gag in Concerto for Horn and Hardart and in the introduction to Six Contrary Dances on his Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion album, Schickele inferred from fictional evidence that P. D. Q. Bach had a hollow leg that was considerably longer than the other one which explains the odd patterns in his dance music.
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Here's Itzhak Perlman and Professor Peter Schickele performing Concert Shtick for Two Violins and Orchestra, by PDQ Bach:
Part Two (the part with actual music in it):
Please follow me below the fleur-de-kos for the not-safe-for-work stuff.
Salacious rounds:
The Grand Serenade for An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion by PDQ Bach:
Movements
Grand Entrance: A short movement with repeated lines by the whole band. The music is very simple to play.
Simply Grand Minuet: Features some parts of the band playing with their mouthpieces only, to create a duck call effect. The lead trombonist plays a high part while the rest of the section plays a very low note, and a piccolo duet is featured as melody. At the end of the piece, the clarinet section takes water and gurgles a B-flat note.
Romance in the Grand Manner: The melody of this piece is actually Old Folks at Home at a slower tempo.
Rondo Mucho Grando: The final and longest movement of the four; it features a Crasho Grosso. This is where the percussionists are instructed to drop and tip over their instruments while making it appear to be an accident. The melody is very simple, accompanied by an upward scale. There are many references to other musical snippets, including a trombone playing a blues scale and the trumpet section playing the fanfare before a race begins. One quoted tune is "You Gotta Be a Football Hero," which is immediately turned into the opening theme of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 7. A siren then announces the end of the piece.