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Liebeslieder Polkas
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele. The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in '' The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach'', and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website. "Schickele numbers", or "S." numbers, associated with most of the compositions, have been assigned arbitrarily (with humorous intent) and are not intended to provide the same service as Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) numbers, also known, especially in early compilations, as "Schmieder numbers" or "S. numbers" after compiler Wolfgang Schmieder. The second section lists "undiscovered works" that are mentioned in ''The Definitive Biography''. The third section lists works by Schickele that have appeared on P. D. Q. Bach recordings. The fourth section lists a few selections, not by P.D Q. Bach/Schickele, that have app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach Family
The Bach family is a family of notable composers of the baroque and classical periods of music, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). A family genealogy was drawn up by Johann Sebastian Bach himself in 1735 when he was 50 and was continued by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach Of the seven children that Johann Sebastian Bach had with his first wife Maria Barbara Bach, his second cousin, four survived into adulthood: Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708–1774); Wilhelm Friedemann; Carl Philipp Emanuel (the "Berlin Bach", later the "Hamburg Bach"); and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. All four were musically talented, and Wilhelm Friedeman and Carl Philipp Emanuel had significant musical careers of their own. After his first wife died, Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a gifted soprano and daughter of the court trumpeter of Prince Saxe-Weissenfels. They had 13 children, of whom Johann Christoph Friedrich (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liebeslieder Polkas
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele. The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in '' The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach'', and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website. "Schickele numbers", or "S." numbers, associated with most of the compositions, have been assigned arbitrarily (with humorous intent) and are not intended to provide the same service as Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) numbers, also known, especially in early compilations, as "Schmieder numbers" or "S. numbers" after compiler Wolfgang Schmieder. The second section lists "undiscovered works" that are mentioned in ''The Definitive Biography''. The third section lists works by Schickele that have appeared on P. D. Q. Bach recordings. The fourth section lists a few selections, not by P.D Q. Bach/Schickele, that have app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Me (Leiber/Stoller Song)
"Love Me" is a ballad composed by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded and popularized by Elvis Presley in 1956. Background Conceived as a parody of country and western music, it was initially recorded by R&B duo, Willy & Ruth, in 1954 (Spark 105), garnering a review spotlight in ''Billboard'' on August 14. Willie Headen was the lead singer of a vocal group, the Honey Bears, and Ruth was the wife of another group member. That record was quickly followed the same year with cover versions by Georgia Gibbs, Connie Russell, Billy Eckstine, Kay Brown, the Four Escorts, the Billy Williams Quartet, the Woodside Sisters and the DeMarco Sisters, and in January 1955 by Jimmie Rodgers Snow. Most of these records were well reviewed in the trades, but none was a hit. Elvis Presley recording Elvis Presley recorded the song on September 1, 1956, for his second album, '' Elvis'' (RCA Victor, LPM-1382), issued on October 19. It was also released on the EP, ''Elvis Vol. 1'' (RCA Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hound Dog (song)
"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Big Mama Thornton on August 13, 1952, in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in late February 1953, "Hound Dog" was Thornton's only hit record, selling over 500,000 copies, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at number one. Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll", ranked at 318 in the 2021 iteration of ''Rolling Stone''s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013. "Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which ranked number 19 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, but was excluded from the revised list in 2021 in favor of Thornton's version; it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiber & Stoller
Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber (; April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller (born March 13, 1933). As well as many R&B and pop hits, they wrote numerous standards for Broadway. Leiber and Stoller found success as the writers of such crossover hit songs as " Hound Dog" (1952) and "Kansas City" (1952). Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work with the Coasters, they created a string of ground-breaking hits—including " Young Blood" (1957), "Searchin'" (1957), "Yakety Yak" (1958), and "Charlie Brown" (1959) — that used the humorous vernacular of teenagers sung in a style that was openly theatrical rather than personal. Leiber and Stoller wrote hits for Elvis Presley, including " Love Me" (1956), " Jailhouse Rock" (1957), " Loving You", "Don't", and "King Creole". They also collaborated with other writers on such songs as " On Broadway", written with Barry Mann and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consort Of Instruments
A consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble. These could consist of the same or a variety of instruments. Consort music enjoyed considerable popularity at court and in the households of the wealthy in the Elizabethan era, and many pieces were written for consorts by the major composers of the period. In the Baroque era, consort music was absorbed into chamber music. Definitions and forms The earliest documented example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne’s ''The Princelye Pleasures'' (1576). Only from the mid-17th century has there been a clear distinction made between a ''‘whole’, or ‘closed’ consort'', that is, all instruments of the same family (for example, a set of viols played together) and a ''‘mixed’, or ‘broken’ consort'', consisting of instruments from various families (for example viols and lute). Major forms of music composed for con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachelbel's Canon
Pachelbel's Canon (also known as Canon in D, P 37) is an canon (music), accompanied canon by the German Baroque music, Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as ''Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo''. Both movement (music), movements are in the key (music), key of D major. The piece is constructed as a true canon at the unison in three parts, with a fourth part as a Ostinato#Ground_bass, ground bass throughout. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from 1838 to 1842. Like his other works, Pachelbel's Canon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoned Guest
''The Stoned Guest'' is a "half-act opera" by Peter Schickele in the satirical persona of P. D. Q. Bach.Schickele, Peter''The Stoned Guest''at the PDQ Bach website, accessed 2016 May 25 The title is a play on the "stone guest" character in ''Don Giovanni'' by Mozart, as well as the opera '' The Stone Guest'' by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky after the play by Pushkin. The work is a parody of classical opera. The opera appears on the 1970 album of the same name. The loose story combines elements of ''Don Giovanni'' with elements of ''Carmen'' by Georges Bizet. Some character names, such as "Don Octave" and "Donna Ribalda", play on the Mozart opera, referring to Don Ottavio and Donna Elvira respectively, while the castanet-clicking "Carmen Ghia" plays on the title character of Bizet's opera (and puns on the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia). The "Commendatoreador" plays on both operas at once, being a combination of "Il Commendatore" and the toreador Escamillo. The orchestral accomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Short-Tempered Clavier And Other Dysfunctional Works For Keyboard
''The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard'' was released in 1995 by Telarc Records. The album contains works by Peter Schickele, sometimes under his pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, including "works for various types of keyboards, including theatre organ, calliope, the ever popular piano, and the organ of the King Congregational Church of Fayray, North Dakota." The title is a parody of Johann Sebastian Bach's ''Well-Tempered Clavier''. Performers * Professor Peter Schickele, steam calliope, organ * Christopher O'Riley, famous concert pianist * Dennis James, famous theater organist * David Robinson, whoever is Track listing # Opening & Introduction (4:50) ''The Short-Tempered Clavier'', Preludes and Fugues in all the Major and Minor Keys Except for the Really Hard Ones, S. easy as 3.14159265 # I. C major (2:46) # II. C minor (1:48) # III. C-sharp minor (3:35) # IV. D major (1:32) # V. D minor (2:28) # VI. E-flat major (2:19) # VII. F major (4:01) # VI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oedipus Tex
''Oedipus Tex'' is a satirical Western-themed oratorio by P. D. Q. Bach that follows the adventures of Oedipus Tex ("you may have heard of my brother Rex") in Thebes Gulch. It was released on the album, '' Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities'' in 1990. Structure ''Oedipus Tex'' is a dramatic oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra with the following scenes. *I. Prologue: "Tragedy" **Recitative: "Well" *II. Aria with chorus: "Howdy there" **Recitative: "And it wasn't long" *III. Duet with chorus: "My heart" **Recitative: "But" *IV. Aria: "You murdered your father" **Recitative: "When Billie Jo heard" *V. Aria with chorus: "Goodbye" **Recitative: "When Oedipus heard" *VI. Chorus and Finale Performers * Professor Peter Schickele, conductor, bass (Title Character) * The Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Philharmonic, Newton Wayland, conductor * The Okay Chorale * Grandmaster Flab and the Hoople Funkharmonic * Pamela South, soprano (Billie Jo Casta) * Dana Krueger, mezzo-sopra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
