PDQ Bach Memorial Library

Mission Statement

This site was last updated on 1st October 1999

While the University of Southern North Bondi at Sydney doesn't literaly exist being what is normally referred to as a "University of the Mind" the PDQ Bach Memorial Library (or rather the collection therein) certainly does as the following stock-take of items contained therein will reveal:

Online

Bibliography

Books

Journals

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Journal Articles

Full details of all journal articles about or by Peter can be found by clicking the picture below



Sheet Music

A catalogue of sheet music by Peter Schickele/PDQ Bach is available from:
Dept. XYZ
Theodore Presser Co.
Presser Place
Bryn Mawr
PA 19010

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PDQ Bach


• Notebook for Betty-Sue Bach 1967 & 1973
• The Stoned Guest (Vocal Score) 1968
• Fanfare for the Common Cold 1977
• "Erotica" Variations 1979
• Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs 1984
• A Little Nightmare Music 1984
• The Short Tempered Clavier 1993
• Little Pickle Book 1995
• "Goldbrick" Variations 1996


Peter Schickele

• The Birth of Christ from the York Cycle of Medieval English Mystery Plays 1967

  Discography

  PDQ Bach

  • The Dreaded PDQ Bach Collection Vol. 1
    1. An Evening with PDQ Bach
    2. An Hysteric Return
    3. PDQ Bach is on the Air
    4. The Stoned Guest
    5. The Intimate PDQ Bach
  • Portrait of PDQ Bach
  • Black Forest Bluegrass
  • Liebeslieder Polkas
  • Music You Can't Get out of Your Head
  • A Little Nightmare Music
  • 1712 Overture and other Musical Assaults
  • Oedipus Tex and other Choral Calamities
  • WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio
  • Music for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion
  • Two Pianos are better than One
  • The Short Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard
  • The Definitive Biography of PDQ Bach narrated by the author

  Peter Schickele

  • Noel by Joan Baez (produced by Peter Schickele) 1966
  • Joan by Joan Baez (Arrangements by Peter Schickele) 1967
  • Baptism by Joan Baez (music and orchestration by Peter Schickele) 1968
  • Good Time Ticket by Peter Schickele and his Orchestra 1969 LP
  • The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 1971
  • The Jubal Trio (contains The Lowest Trees Have Tops Cantata for soprano, flute, viola & harp) 1978 LP
  • Music of Peter Schickele (contains songs from The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Elegies for clarinet and piano, Summer Trio for flute, cello and piano 1979 LP
  • The New York Bassoon Quartet (contains Last Tango in Bayreuth) 1979 LP
  • Bestiary & Quartet 1984
  • Sue Ann Kahn Plays Schickele, Rochberg, Riegger, Luening (contains Spring Serenade for flute and piano 1986 Cassette
  • The Little Orchestra Society performs Peter and the Wolf:(contains A Zoo Called Earth by Peter Schickele) 1991
  • Sneaky Pete and the Wolf 1993
  • Thurber's Dogs (Suite for Orchestra) 1994
  • Schickele on a Lark : The Lark Quartet 1998
  • Hornsmoke 1998

    Other Artists

  • JS Bach - Bach 2000 Sampler
  • LvBeethoven - Deutsche Grammaphon Complete Beethoven Edition
  • John Bayless - Bach meets the Beatles
  • Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
    Cornology
    1. Gorilla
    2. The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse
    3. Tadpoles
    4. Keynsham
    5. Let's Make Up and be Friendly
  • Wendy Carlos - Switched on Bach 2000
  • Flanders & Swann - The Complete Flanders & Swann
    1. At the Drop of a Hat
    2. At the Drop of Another Hat
    3. The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann
  • Gerard Hoffnung - Hoffnung's Music Festivals
    1. The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert
    2. The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival
    3. The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival
  • Neil Innes - Recycled Vinyl Blues
  • Spike Jones - The Spike Jones Anthology
  • Garrison Keillor
    1. Songs of the Cat
    2. The Family Radio
  • Tom Lehrer
    1. Songs and More Songs
    2. An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
    3. Tom Lehrer Revisited
    4. That Was the Year that Was
  • Spike Milligan - Icons of the 20th Century
  • WA Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte
  • Randy Newman
    1. Sail Away
    2. Little Criminals
    3. Trouble in Paradise
    4. Good Old Boys
    5. Land of Dreams
    6. Faust
    7. Guilty - 30 Years of Randy Newman
    8. Bad Love
  • Harry Nilsson
    1. Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology
    2. The Point
    3. Nilsson Schmilsson
  • Anna Russell
    1. The Anna Russell Album
    2. Encore?
    3. Again?
  • The Rutles
    1. The Rutles
    2. Archaeology
  • Brent Spiner - Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back
  • Patrick Stewart performs Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    T-shirt ography

    • Face
      
    • Falling Music
    • SchickeleMix Distributed nationwide by PRI Public Radio International
      Face of Peter Schickele with quote "all musics are created equal"
      Artists name checked: Earl Taylor, Spike Jones, Conway Twitty, Mozart, Rogers & Hart, Monk, Modern Jazz Quartet, Jean Ritchie, the beatles, The Everly Brothers, Stravinsky, PDQ Bach, Miles Davis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Hildegard von Bingen, The Beach Boys, Libana

    Videography

    The Abduction of Figaro

    Posterography

    
  • Periodic Table of Musics (Schickele Mix)

    Postcardography

    
    
    • PDQ Bach was just as succesful in engraving his music as in composing it pack of six
      
    • History's most justly neglected composer within an all-too-appropriate border by Lawrence Widdoes pack of six
      
    • Professor Peter Schickele, sole discoverer of the music of PDQ Bach (1807-1742)?, revealing the reason that he and his wife have separate bedrooms pack of six
      
    • Professor Peter Schickele, sole discoverer of the music of PDQ Bach (1807-1742)?, in a uniquely typical pose pack of six
    

    Brief Chronology

    • 31 March 1742 - Birth
    • 5 May 1807 - Death

    Not so brief Chronology

    • 1742-1745 Early Infancy
    • 1745-1766 Late Infancy
    • 1766-1777 The Turning Point
      1. Initial Plunge
      2. Soused Period 1778-1807
      3. Contrition

    Filling in the Gaps

    • 24 July 1750 - Death of Johann Sebastian Bach
    • 1763/64 - in London
    • late 1770's - Portrait painted
    • 1784 Death of WF Bach
    • 1786/1787 composition of Barren Gypsy Madame Butterbrickle and Howdy Symphony
    • 1790's composition of Half Nelson Mass Missa Hilarious and Blaues Grass
    • 4 December 1791 - Death of Mozart
    • 1817 - Betty Sue Bach is burned at the stake
    • 26 March 1827 - Death of Beethoven
    • 17 July 1935 - birth of Peter Schickele
    • 30 August 1953 - Coffee Cantata recorded by Peter Schickele and his brother
    • 24 April 1965 - First PDQ Bach Concert at New York City's Town Hall (album recorded)
    • 26 April 1965 - First PDQ Bach Concert Review in New York Times
    • 31 October 1999 - Death of David Schickele (Peter's brother)

    Unplayed PDQ Bach

    These works have not yet been attributed to PDQ Bach but (perhaps) they should be:
    • Cat Cantata (in 2 movements):
      (1)Me-ow
      (2)Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........
    • Cosi fan tutti-frutti
    • The Cunning Richard Nixon
    • East Side Story
    • Farsipal (libretto by the Reverend Spooner)
    • Goodbye Dolly
    • The Grieving Magpie
    • Hamburger Concertos
    • The Lying Dutchman
    • The Magnifibat (or Magnifirat)
    • North Atlantic
    • Rhapsody in Red
    • The Queen and You
    • The Rite of Winter
    • St. Brian Passion (based on the Gospel according to Monty Python)
    • The Sound of Muzak
    • Swan Swamp