P.D.Q. Bach - The Art of the Ground Round - VI. Nellie is a Nice Girl

P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele)
The Art of the Ground Round (S.1.19/lb)
For Three Baritones and Discontinuo
Nellie is a Nice Girl: 0:00
Encore: 1:52
Professor Peter Schickele - Beriberitone
John Ferrante - Bargain Counter Tenor
John Nelson - Singist
Arthur Weisberg - Bassooner

[@jackal59]

The "encore" taken at double speed is more than twice as good, especially when the third voice gives up on trying to articulate the 32nds in the gallop. While I think the secret to P.D.Q. Bach usually is playing it straight, in this case it felt more like the discontinuo issued a hilarious dare that the singers accepted.

[@miki890098]

THE THIRD LINE IS PURE GENIOUS

[@risvegliato]

Fantastic.! But people like Purcell, Handel etc were actually doing stuff like this in their madrigals 250 year ago!. Check out some of the ruder madrigals by Purcell.

[@DavidArdittiComposer]

I think that’s the point. This is a parody of them.

[@klop4228]

@@DavidArdittiComposer Honestly, idk if it's even a parody of them. It's just catches, played completely straight (though with more modern humour).

[@DavidArdittiComposer]

@@klop4228 I think that's right. The point is it's a modern twist clearly done with knowledge of similar 'rude' things by early composers, which is what which seemed to pass the OP by.

[@bb1111116]

@@klop4228 ; the addition of “La Marseillaise”, the French national anthem, makes the composition a parody. This adding of familiar melodies to a classical type of composition is typical of the “PDQ Bach style”.

[@theafellacomposer]

I think that’s pretty much the point of PDQ Bach’s works. He writes parodies of Classical Music.

[@theduckypianist3109]

godly

[@utvpoop]

Oy vey!