Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head

Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach

Released

1982

Label

Vanguard

P. D. Q. Bach chronology

Liebeslieder Polkas
(1980)

Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head
(1982)

A Little Nightmare Music
(1983)

Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head is recording of the music by Peter Schickele writing as P. D. Q. Bach. The album describes itself as "P.D.Q. Bach’s answer to Haydn’s "Farewell" Symphony" and includes "all the music from The Civilian Barber that's been discovered." The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1982.

Performers

Professor Peter Schickele conducting the New York Pick-Up Ensemble
Marilyn Brustadt, off-coloratura soprano
Paul Dunkel and Diva Goodfriend-Koven, pumpflute
Lauren Goldstein, Bill Becker, and Abdul Falafel, double reed hookah
Early Anderson, Polizeiposaune (police trombone) and trombonus interruptus

Track listing

"Howdy" Symphony in D major, S. 6 7/8 (P.D.Q. Bach)

1. Introduzione casuale; allegro con mucho brio

2. Andante con mojo

3. Menuetto allegretto

4. Come un pipistrello fuori dall' inferno

5. Perückenstück (Hair Piece) from "The Civilian Barber", S. 4F (P.D.Q. Bach)
6. Suite from "The Civilian Barber", S. 4F (P.D.Q. Bach)

Entrance of the dragoons (tempo di Marsha)
Dance of St. Vitus
His majesty's minuet
Fanfare for the royal shaft
Her majesty's minuet
Departure of the dragoons (tempo di on the double)

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head

P. D. Q. Bach

see also Peter Schickele

Albums	An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach (1965) An Hysteric Return (1966) Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970) The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1971) The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974) Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) Liebeslieder Polkas (1980) Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head (1982) A Little Nightmare Music (1983) 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989) Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992) Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994) The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995) The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996) The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998) The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007)

Compositions	The Abduction of Figaro Concerto for Horn and Hardart Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons The Stoned Guest Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome

Videos / DVDs	The Abduction of Figaro (1984) P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006)

Books	The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807 – 1742? (1976, by Prof. Peter Schickele)

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