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* TranslateTheLoanWordsToo: The lyrics for "La Pucelle de New Orleans" supposedly include the line, "Hinky dinky do you speak."
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* XMeetsY: Sometimes called the "'[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]]' of ClassicalMusic" even though [[OlderThanTheyThink he came first]].
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* TheComicallySerious: any musician performing P.D.Q.'s works.
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* IHaveNoSon: In-universe, P.D.Q. dates are officially listed as "1807-1742?", so that the rest of the Bach family can deny that Johann Sebastian (died 1750) could possibly be his father.
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* ProductPlacement: "Tragedy, Tragedy! (Drink Pepsi!) Tragedy, Tragedy!"
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** ''Oedipus Tex'' is a half-hour set up to deliver [[spoiler:The Eyes of Texas]] as the punchline.
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* BrokenAesop: The moral of ''Oedipus Tex'' is that bestiality is preferable over incest.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: Much of the humor comes from bawdy jokes and ''low culture'' musical references performed by deadpan performers in a stuffy concert setting.
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* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Everything sounds more classical-musical in Italian (consider a symphony movement called "Come un [[BatOutOfHell pipistrello fuori dall' inferno]]") or more Lutheran in German.
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* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Everything sounds more classical-musical in Italian (consider a symphony movement called "Come un [[BatOutOfHell pipistrello fuori dall' inferno]]") or more Lutheran in German.German ("Fräulein Maria Mack" is none other than the PlaygroundSong "Miss Mary Mack").
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: {{Inverted}}. The music itself is completely ridiculous, but is always performed by professional [[ClassicalMusic classical musicians]] who play it totally straight.
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*VisualPun The iconic poster for the 1980 ''Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head'' concert (shown above), the cover of ''The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach, and others.
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* TruckDriversGearChange: "Song to Celia" (a parody of Ben Johnson's eponymous poem and the song based on it, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"), has a none-too-steady chorus attempting modulations in various places and picking fights over the key with the accompanist. The last verse modulates 6 times, 4 of them on a single syllable, and the last 2 painfully scooped down and up.
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The YMMV page can be found [[{{YMMV/PDQBach}} HERE]].
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* SameFaceDifferentName: Many P.D.Q. Bach albums include pieces composed under Peter Schickele's name. Though Schickele has written some more serious works, these pieces tend to be even more ReferenceOverdosed than P.D.Q.'s works.
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P. D. Q. Bach is a fairly obscure member of the Bach family (being the 21st of JohannSebastianBach's 20 children) who lived from 1807-1742[[MerlinSickness (?)]]. As with much of his family, he began a career as a musician; unlike much of his family, he was both GiftedlyBad and extremely prolific. After his death he was promptly forgotten by history; what we do know of him is primarily the work of one professor Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Schickele has spent much of his career not only researching the life of this obscure historical figure, but also discovering his works and performing them for modern audiences.
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P. D. Q. Bach is a fairly obscure member of the Bach family (being the 21st last, least, and certainly oddest of JohannSebastianBach's 20 20-odd children) who lived from 1807-1742[[MerlinSickness (?)]]. As with much of his family, he began a career as a musician; unlike much of his family, he was both GiftedlyBad and extremely prolific. After his death he was promptly forgotten by history; what we do know of him is primarily the work of one professor Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Schickele has spent much of his career not only researching the life of this obscure historical figure, but also discovering his works and performing them for modern audiences.
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* RockMeAmadeus: P.D.Q. essentially made his whole career from this shtick.
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* SincerestFormOfFlattery: Prof. Schickele has acknowledged his indebtedness to Music/SpikeJones in writing music with comedic elements and goofy sounds.
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* FirstWorldProblems: "Classical Rap" describes the hardships of life in the city... on the affluent Upper West Side.
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* {{Feghoot}}: "So This Guy," the last movement of the "Knock Knock Cantata," offers one of these. There's also a sketch on the ''1712 Overture'' CD that turns out to be a long build-up to the punchline, "I've just always wanted to [[spoiler:give Burt Bach a rock]]."
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* BizarreInstrument: The works of PDQ Bach often require the use of unconventional instruments, like the "tromboon" (Trombone with a bassoon reed), ''Pümpenflötte'' (flute powered by a bicycle pump), ''Polizeiposaune'' (trombone with a police siren inserted into the bell), left-handed sewer flute (a bunch of plumbing fittings), balloons, boat-horns, and similar nonsense.
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* AntiLoveSong: ''My Bonny Lass She Smelleth'', ''My Jane'', and many many others.
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P. D. Q. Bach is a fairly obscure member of the Bach family (being the 21st of JohannSebastianBach's 20 children) who lived from 1807-1742[[MerlinSickness (?)]]. As with much of his family, he began a career as a musician; unlike much of his family, he was both GiftedlyBad and extremely prolific. After his death he was promptly forgotten by history; what we do know of him is primarily the work of one professor Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Schickele has spent much of his career not only researching the life of this obscure historical figure, but also discovering his works and performing them for modern audiences.
...Okay, fine, you got us: the man never existed. Schickele made him up as a [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis disguise for his own compositions]], which are parodies of typical classical conventions and compositions. The results, though of merit on purely musical terms, are [[SoBadItsGood unconventional]], [[AnachronismStew eclectic]] and quite popular on the comedy circuit, performed anywhere from high school campuses to the Boston Pops, long-time seat of famed composer JohnWilliams.
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!!PDQ's work provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AnachronismStew
* AntiChristmasCarol: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLPfUnzhLg Throw the Yule Log On Uncle John]]'' is about the one drunk relative who always shows up to ruin Christmas dinner, in addition to gleefully abusing the comma for fun and profit.
--> ''Ten o'clock on Christmas morn and all the guests are coming to the door,''
--> ''Ten o'clock on Christmas morn and Uncle John is already on the floor.''
--> ''Though the weather's bitter cold there's not a frown to mar the festive mood,''
--> ''Wait till they discover that old Uncle John has eaten all the food!''
* AntiLoveSong: ''My Bonny Lass She Smelleth'', ''My Jane'', and many many others.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: ''Oedipus Tex'' casts a Bigfoot as the Sphinx.
* BizarreInstrument: The works of PDQ Bach often require the use of unconventional instruments, like the "tromboon" (Trombone with a bassoon reed)
** Or the "lasso de amore" (a flexible tube which is swung by one end, sending wind through the reed in the other).
** He also uses standard instruments in bizarre ways. For example, in one concert Prof Schickele was seen to tuck the bow of a violin under his chin and move the violin back and forth across it. Later that evening he also played the violin as if it was a banjo.
* BoastfulRap: in "Classical Rap": "I'm the apex, I'm the best. I'm considerably better than all the rest."
* ContentWarnings: Parodied on the cover of ''Oedipus Tex & Other Choral Calamities":
--> Warning! Contains "Classical Rap"
--> Pathetic Advisory: Inane Lyrics
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A dog toy with a wind-up aspect that changed its' pitch depending on how fast you pulled on it was once used as a major part of one musical piece. Other instruments have included plumbing parts, foghorns, balloons, a bicycle, the ''Polizeiposaune'' (a trombone with a siren stuck in the bell), the ''Pümpenflötte'' (a flute connected to a bicycle pump), the "Hardart" (a percussion instrument where every note was made by a wildly different object, from bicycle bells to rubber duckies to toy hoot-owls that raise their wings when you blow on them), and so on and so forth.
* EyeScream: PlayedForLaughs(!) in ''Oedipus Tex'': "As soon as Oedipus put out his eyes, he kind of wished he hadn't."
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Everything sounds more classical-musical in Italian (consider a symphony movement called "Come un [[BatOutOfHell pipistrello fuori dall' inferno]]").
* FallingChandelierOfDoom
* ForegoneConclusion: Since ''Oedipus Tex'' is ''Theatre/OedipusRex'' [[RecycledInSpace IN THE WEST]], it's pretty clear what's gonna happen.
* ForInconveniencePressOne: The track introductions from the album ''Two Pianos Are Better than One'' start out as a telephone menu, but get progressively more surreal:
-->''If you wish to hear this work as the composer wrote it, press 1.\\
If you wish to hear it sung by Spanish monks who live in an isolated monastery called Our Lady of How to Package and Market Recordings, press 2.\\
If you wish to hear it performed by members of the Bolshoi Capitalist Ensemble, press 3.\\
If you wish to hear it played by caffeine addicts who bring it a good two minutes under the next longest performance, press 4.''
* GeniusBonus: The more you know about ClassicalMusic, the funnier you'll find the jokes.
* GiftedlyBad
* HookHand
* IncrediblyLongNote
* IncrediblyLamePun: Far too often, but worth particular mention is the "Knock Knock Cantata."
* IShallTauntYou: "The Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments", in which the brass section sits in a balcony and does everything it can to screw with the woodwinds, such as ignoring their cue and playing "Nanny Nanny Boo-Boo".
* LastSecondWordSwap: "The Art of the Ground Round":
-->''Nelly is a nice girl, but Hannah is a'' (w)hor(e)-
-->''-rrible prude''
-->''Paul is a policeman, but Peter is a'' pimp-
-->''-ly and rude young man''
* MoralityBallad
* MediumAwareness
* MusicalGag
* MusicalisInterruptus
* OverlyLongGag
* OverlyPreparedGag: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2n4zqq6LJ8 Please, Kind Sir]]"
* ParodyNames
* ReferenceOverdosed: It's quite impressive how many later composers P.D.Q. was able to plagiarize from.
* ShaveAndAHaircut
* SoBadItsGood: invoked.
* ViewersAreGeniuses
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: an entire song built around this: by moving the pause / comma around in the phrase, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLPfUnzhLg Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John]]'' becomes "Throw the Yule log on Uncle John."
* WestminsterChimes: The Fugue in A Major from "The Short-Tempered Clavier" uses this complete with [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve twelve o'clock chime]].
* XMeetsY: Sometimes called the "'[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]]' of ClassicalMusic" even though [[OlderThanTheyThink he came first]].
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...Okay, fine, you got us: the man never existed. Schickele made him up as a [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis disguise for his own compositions]], which are parodies of typical classical conventions and compositions. The results, though of merit on purely musical terms, are [[SoBadItsGood unconventional]], [[AnachronismStew eclectic]] and quite popular on the comedy circuit, performed anywhere from high school campuses to the Boston Pops, long-time seat of famed composer JohnWilliams.
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!!PDQ's work provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AnachronismStew
* AntiChristmasCarol: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLPfUnzhLg Throw the Yule Log On Uncle John]]'' is about the one drunk relative who always shows up to ruin Christmas dinner, in addition to gleefully abusing the comma for fun and profit.
--> ''Ten o'clock on Christmas morn and all the guests are coming to the door,''
--> ''Ten o'clock on Christmas morn and Uncle John is already on the floor.''
--> ''Though the weather's bitter cold there's not a frown to mar the festive mood,''
--> ''Wait till they discover that old Uncle John has eaten all the food!''
* AntiLoveSong: ''My Bonny Lass She Smelleth'', ''My Jane'', and many many others.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: ''Oedipus Tex'' casts a Bigfoot as the Sphinx.
* BizarreInstrument: The works of PDQ Bach often require the use of unconventional instruments, like the "tromboon" (Trombone with a bassoon reed)
** Or the "lasso de amore" (a flexible tube which is swung by one end, sending wind through the reed in the other).
** He also uses standard instruments in bizarre ways. For example, in one concert Prof Schickele was seen to tuck the bow of a violin under his chin and move the violin back and forth across it. Later that evening he also played the violin as if it was a banjo.
* BoastfulRap: in "Classical Rap": "I'm the apex, I'm the best. I'm considerably better than all the rest."
* ContentWarnings: Parodied on the cover of ''Oedipus Tex & Other Choral Calamities":
--> Warning! Contains "Classical Rap"
--> Pathetic Advisory: Inane Lyrics
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A dog toy with a wind-up aspect that changed its' pitch depending on how fast you pulled on it was once used as a major part of one musical piece. Other instruments have included plumbing parts, foghorns, balloons, a bicycle, the ''Polizeiposaune'' (a trombone with a siren stuck in the bell), the ''Pümpenflötte'' (a flute connected to a bicycle pump), the "Hardart" (a percussion instrument where every note was made by a wildly different object, from bicycle bells to rubber duckies to toy hoot-owls that raise their wings when you blow on them), and so on and so forth.
* EyeScream: PlayedForLaughs(!) in ''Oedipus Tex'': "As soon as Oedipus put out his eyes, he kind of wished he hadn't."
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Everything sounds more classical-musical in Italian (consider a symphony movement called "Come un [[BatOutOfHell pipistrello fuori dall' inferno]]").
* FallingChandelierOfDoom
* ForegoneConclusion: Since ''Oedipus Tex'' is ''Theatre/OedipusRex'' [[RecycledInSpace IN THE WEST]], it's pretty clear what's gonna happen.
* ForInconveniencePressOne: The track introductions from the album ''Two Pianos Are Better than One'' start out as a telephone menu, but get progressively more surreal:
-->''If you wish to hear this work as the composer wrote it, press 1.\\
If you wish to hear it sung by Spanish monks who live in an isolated monastery called Our Lady of How to Package and Market Recordings, press 2.\\
If you wish to hear it performed by members of the Bolshoi Capitalist Ensemble, press 3.\\
If you wish to hear it played by caffeine addicts who bring it a good two minutes under the next longest performance, press 4.''
* GeniusBonus: The more you know about ClassicalMusic, the funnier you'll find the jokes.
* GiftedlyBad
* HookHand
* IncrediblyLongNote
* IncrediblyLamePun: Far too often, but worth particular mention is the "Knock Knock Cantata."
* IShallTauntYou: "The Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments", in which the brass section sits in a balcony and does everything it can to screw with the woodwinds, such as ignoring their cue and playing "Nanny Nanny Boo-Boo".
* LastSecondWordSwap: "The Art of the Ground Round":
-->''Nelly is a nice girl, but Hannah is a'' (w)hor(e)-
-->''-rrible prude''
-->''Paul is a policeman, but Peter is a'' pimp-
-->''-ly and rude young man''
* MoralityBallad
* MediumAwareness
* MusicalGag
* MusicalisInterruptus
* OverlyLongGag
* OverlyPreparedGag: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2n4zqq6LJ8 Please, Kind Sir]]"
* ParodyNames
* ReferenceOverdosed: It's quite impressive how many later composers P.D.Q. was able to plagiarize from.
* ShaveAndAHaircut
* SoBadItsGood: invoked.
* ViewersAreGeniuses
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: an entire song built around this: by moving the pause / comma around in the phrase, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLPfUnzhLg Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John]]'' becomes "Throw the Yule log on Uncle John."
* WestminsterChimes: The Fugue in A Major from "The Short-Tempered Clavier" uses this complete with [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve twelve o'clock chime]].
* XMeetsY: Sometimes called the "'[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]]' of ClassicalMusic" even though [[OlderThanTheyThink he came first]].
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