Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, Hardart, Wine Bottle, conductor
• Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jorge Mester
• The Royal P. D. Q. Bach Festival Orchestra, Jorge Mester, conductor
• The Orchestra of the University of Southern North Dakota
  USND at Hoople
  The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople is the fictional university that is the home institution of "Professor" Peter Schickele, who is renowned as the greatest expert on the life and works of the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach and who serves as a professor in the Extension Division of...
  
   at Hoople Heavy Opera Company under the direction of John Nelson
• The New York Pick-Up Ensemble
• Marlene Kleinman, mezzanine-soprano
  Mezzo-soprano
  A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
  
  
• Lorna Haywood, off-coloratura
  Coloratura soprano
  A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice...
  
  
• John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
  Tenor
  The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
  
  
• William Woolf, bass
  Bass (voice type)
  A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
  
  
• Bernice, houndentenor (Dog)
• Will Jordan as Milton Host
• Bill Macy as Paul Henry Lung
• The Okay Chorale
  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a roughly 30-second gunfight that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, of the United States. Outlaw Cowboys Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran from the fight, unharmed, but Ike's brother...
  
  , John Nelson, director
• I Virtuosi di Hoople
• Amateur Musica Antiqua of Hoople
• Robert Dennis, announcer and callioper
  Calliope (music)
  A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or more recently compressed air, through large whistles, originally locomotive whistles....
  
  
• Ralph Froelich, French horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
  
• Leonid Hambro, harpsichord
  Harpsichord
  A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
  
  
• Seymour Platt, trumpet mouthpiece
  Mouthpiece (brass)
  On brass instruments the mouthpiece is the part of the instrument which is placed upon the player's lips. The purpose of the mouthpiece is a resonator, which passes vibration from the lips to the column of air contained within the instrument, giving rise to the standing wave pattern of vibration in...
  
  

Disc one

• 1. Concerto for Horn and Hardart
  Concerto for Horn and Hardart
  The Concerto for Horn and Hardart is a work of Peter Schickele but is touted as a work by P. D. Q. Bach. The work is a parody of the classical double concerto but where one instrument, the hardart, uses different devices, such as plucked strings, blown whistles and popped balloons, to produce each...
  
  , S. 27 (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Allegro
• Tema con variazione
  Variation (music)
  In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form. The changes may involve harmony, melody, counterpoint, rhythm, timbre, orchestration or any combination of these.-Variation form:...
  
  
• Menuetto
  Minuet
  A minuet, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, and may have been from French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular...
  
   con Panna
  Cream
  Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators"...
  
   e Zucchero
  Sugar
  Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
  
  
• 2. Cantata
  Cantata
  A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....
  
  : Iphigenia
  Iphigenia (disambiguation)
  Iphigenia can refer to:* Iphigenia, mythological figure, daughter of Agamemnon sacrificed to Artemis* Iphigenia , 1977 Greek film* 112 Iphigenia, asteroid* Ephigenia, sainted daughter of Ethiopian king...
  
   in Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
  , S. 53162 (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Aria
  Aria
  An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...
  
  
• Recitative
  Recitative
  Recitative , also known by its Italian name "recitativo" , is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech...
  
  
• Ground
• Recitative
• Aria
• 3. Schleptet
  Septet
  A septet is a formation containing exactly seven members. It is commonly associated with musical groups, but can be applied to any situation where seven similar or related objects are considered a single unit, such as a seven-line stanza of poetry....
  
  in E-flat major (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
• Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
• Adagio Saccharin
  Saccharin
  Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfilimine, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations...
  
  o
• Yehudi
  Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
  
   Menuetto
• Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
• 4. Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (Prof. Schickele)
• Allegro
• Romanze
• Menuetto
• Rondo
  Rondo
  Rondo, and its French equivalent rondeau, is a word that has been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form, but also to a character-type that is distinct from the form...
  
  
• 5. New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
  Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
  The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and best-known compositions in all of classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening sonata, an andante, and a fast...
  
  
• 6. What's My Melodic Line?
• 7. Madrigal
  Madrigal (music)
  A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
  
   "My bonnie lass she smelleth" from The Triumphs of Thusnelda
  Thusnelda
  Thusnelda was the daughter of the Cheruscan prince Segestes. Her father had intended her for someone else, but Arminius, who subsequently led a coalition of Germanic tribes to victory over Publius Quinctilius Varus and his legions in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, eloped with her and...
  
  (P. D. Q. Bach)

Disc two

• 1. "Unbegun" Symphony (Prof. Schickele)
• IV. Andante – Allegro
• 2. Half-act opera: The Stoned Guest
  The Stoned Guest
  This musical work, while touted as "P. D. Q. Bach's Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest," is actually the work of Peter Schickele. The title is a play on the subtitle of Don Giovanni by Mozart, "The Stone Guest", as well as the opera The Stone Guest by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky...
  
  , excerpts (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Introduction
• Overture
  Overture
  Overture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...
  
  
• Recitative and aria: "Now is the season"
• Recitative and trio
  Ternary form
  Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form, usually schematicized as A-B-A. The first and third parts are musically identical, or very nearly so, while the second part in some way provides a contrast with them...
  
  : "I'm sure I'd be"
• Intermission feature: Opera Whiz
• Plot Synopsis
• Finale: "O saviour"
• 3. Fugue
  Fugue
  In music, a fugue is a compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition....
  
   in C minor
  C minor
  C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. The harmonic minor raises the B to B. Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with naturals and accidentals as necessary.Its key signature consists of three flats...
  
  , from the "Toot" Suite for calliope four hands, S. 212° (P. D. Q. Bach)
• 4. Oratorio
  Oratorio
  An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
  
  : The Seasonings, S. 1½ tsp. (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Chorus: "Tarragon
  Tarragon
  Tarragon or dragon's-wort is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood. Corresponding to its species name, a common term for the plant is "dragon herb". It is native to a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere from easternmost Europe across central and eastern Asia to India,...
  
   of virtue is full"
• Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
• Duet: "Bide thy thyme
  Thyme
  Thyme is a culinary and medicinal herb of the genus Thymus.-History:Ancient Egyptians used thyme for embalming. The ancient Greeks used it in their baths and burnt it as incense in their temples, believing it was a source of courage...
  
  "
• Fugue
• Recitative: "Then asked he"
• Chorale
  Chorale
  A chorale was originally a hymn sung by a Christian congregation. In certain modern usage, this term may also include classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character....
  
  : "By the leek
  Leek
  The leek, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum , also sometimes known as Allium porrum, is a vegetable which belongs, along with the onion and garlic, to family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae...
  
  s of Babylon
  Psalm 137
  Psalm 137 is one of the best known of the Biblical psalms. Its opening lines, "By the rivers of Babylon..." have been set to music on several occasions....
  
  , There we sat down, yea, we wept"
• Aria: "Open sesame
  Sesame
  Sesame is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalized in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods....
  
   seeds"
• Recitative: "So saying"
• Duet: "Summer is a cumin
  Cumin
  Cumin is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to India. Its seeds are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.-Etymology:...
  
   seed"
• Chorus with Soloists: "To curry
  Curry
  Curry is a generic description used throughout Western culture to describe a variety of dishes from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southeast Asian cuisines...
  
  favor, favor curry"

Track listing (single disc version)

• 1. Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27 (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Allegro
• Tema con variazione
• Menuetto con Panna e Zucchero
• 2. Cantata: Iphigenia in Brooklyn, S. 53162 (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Aria
• Recitative
• Ground
• Recitative
• Aria
• 3. Schleptet in E-flat major (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
• Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
• Adagio Saccharino
• Yehudi Menuetto
• Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
• 4. Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (Prof. Schickele)
• Allegro
• Romanze
• Menuetto
• Rondo
• 5. New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
• 6. What's My Melodic Line?
• 7. Madrigal "My bonnie lass she smelleth" from The Triumphs of Thusnelda (P. D. Q. Bach)

Sources

• The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (single disc version)
• The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (two disc set)