P. D. Q. Bach: Missa hilarious
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2021
- P. D. Q. Bach's argh-inspiring ''Missa hilarious'' for bargain counter tenor, basso blotto, chorus, and orchestra S. N₂O. Bargain counter tenor John Ferrante, basso blotto Harris Poor and Duh Brooklyn Boys Chorus are accompanied by Ransom Wilson & Diva Goodfriend-Koven (tape recorders, hand flutes, corrugahorn, nose flutes), Early Anderson (trombonus interruptus) and the New York Pick-Up Ensemble, conducted by Prof. Peter Schickele, legendary head of the Department of Musical Pathology at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.
The great Peter Schickele died a few days ago at the age of 88. He brought humor to a world that sorely needs it.
I hate musical 'jokes' especially those that make the middle class deem funny.
@@paulfreeman4900 Then you're on the wrong channel.
@@paulfreeman4900 I both agree with your comment and think that Schickele is funny
"The original score of this music was found along with documents pertaining to PDQ's excommunication."
Strangely enough, since the Bachs were Protestants. Maybe he was a convert like Johann Christian 😅
What I find most amazing about Schickele is his ability to get the wind players to play ever-so-slightly sharp (or flat) for added comical effect. Of course, everything he did was amazing...
Is the clapping between movements also intentional? You're not supposed to do that. :D
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom I think so. Schickele’s PDQ Bach pieces work as well as they do by breaking all of the rules of classical music. I don’t think that would be any different.
audiences used to do it all the time, sometimes to demand that a passage be repeated. case in point: the premiere beethoven symphony 9, second movement, tympani solo.@@LadyhawksLairDotCom
you've heard of the roman rite; now get ready for... the roman rong
Schickele is an absolute genius of American music. Listen to ALL he has written.
This was my introduction as a child to PDQ. I had no idea he'd done so much until much later.
There is so much in here that I never understood as a child. Angus Dei, the holy cow still has me in hysterics.
Rest in Peace Professor.
i remember in college our teacher pointed out how all the sections were "correctly" done, as far as full choir v soloist, compared to a traditional choral mass! one of my favourite pdq pieces, up there with schleptet & echo sonata [horn player, can't ya tell?!?]
I’m more of a hoe player...
It's based on a pretty typical late 18th-century Viennese concerted Mass.😁
A masterpiece.
Thank you for this. Please consider uploading Professor Schickele's introductions to his concerts. They highlight his ingenuity and unique brand of humor.
Dona nobis pasta, indeed...
An inventive, funny piece from a time when Western culture was confident, inclusive and enjoyed making fun of its self from time to time. The Western Canon is so strong that taking the piss out of it in this brilliant way just made it shine brighter... I miss that brio and generosity of spirit....
It's hard for any (not only for Western) culture if, as in our days, so many people and nations revendicate all sorts of barbarism as their holiest prerogatives. What you wrote reminded me of Hindemith's funny disfiguration of Wagner's "Flying dutchman" overture: Despite all the fun and the disfiguration, it also reminded me of how great the original is.
Totally agree... who might have predicted that a sense of humour and proportion would become a rarity in the arts?
Bravo trumpets!
Outstanding.
Suck it to me, suck it to me Gloria had me in tears 😂
"Sock it to me." A phrase used in "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Was introduced to his music around 1984? Love this stuff.
Hosanna -an-an-an-an -an-shan-an-an-an!
The Agnus Dei may be the the most gloriously loony thing Schickele's ever do
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Always have loved this inventive and hilarious piece, one of Prof. Peter Schickele's very best. Anyone else catch the 1960's Batman TV show theme at 16:07 ?
Missed it the first time, lol!
Voilà une dizaine d'années, j'avais entendu cette oeuvre dans une autre interprétation via UA-cam . . . . Dommage que nous n'ayons pas les images . . . .
If you were to mix Orff’s Carmina Burana with Leopold Mozart’s Toy Symphony, this is what you’d get.
And inserting The Sound of Music in between the two!
Yrie-k best part!!! 3:58 owimbowe owimbowe hahaha^^
The lion prays tonight! 🦁
Jesu H Christe lol. And the pig latin.. And all the other puns. Kill me.
Hosanna-na-na-na
... et in Spiro Agnew! 😇
A bit too much, perhaps, but you can't please everyone. The _sanctus_ part brings a little darkness alla Morricone, at least. Peter Ustinov used to entertain in similar fashion by improvising _lost_ fragments of Bach chorals and Schubert songs.
As for Schickele's output that remains arguably less known, I'd recommend his work with Joan Baez in 1960's. To mention only a couple of simple, beautifully arranged songs from the _Baptism_ LP - _"The Magic Wood"_ and _"All in Green Went My Love Riding"._
Even the Sanctus is an inside joke… apparently Prof. Schickele took the tune from Hare Krishna chanting.
@@adamferguson1064 Indeed. I hadn't noticed that before. Thank you. --Waving from Istanbul.
@@adamferguson1064 The 1st half of the Sanctus is in fact a direct quote from the number "Hare Krishna"(which is based on the original mantra itself) from the musical "Hair". The 2nd half also sounded like it was parodying a similar mantra(I forgot which).
One, two, five!
No sir, five
Three!
No comments about the solfeggio Credo?
I wanted to write one, but then I met a girl named Gloria.
@@Tetsugakusha75 Gloria in Excelsis
Yrie K, Yrie K, Yrie K Eleison Yay!! (pig latin!! lol)
Igpay atinlay! Allelujahay!
@@burtashtongetz1427 iyay ovelay eterpay ickeleshay!!
@@debs4mysweetbaby Osay oday Iyay!
Pig Greek?
@@99zxk Ywhay atthay?
Incredible how a lot of bad notes can be organized to make something fantastic.
What bad notes? I didn't hear any bad notes.
these are all the best possible notes i think
He means the terrible training of PDQ Bach
I don't know when this is written or if it is a quote, but Bernstein wrote exactly the same Kyrie in 'Mass' that is heard here in the beginning.
I didn't know Bernstein's "Mass", but I checked several recordings now, and I don't hear the slightest similarity. Could you send me a link to a video where you think that Bernstein's "Kyrie" sounds like this one?
@@burtashtongetz1427 actually, on second hearing ('double entendre'?) you're maybe right. I could be mixing things up with another instance in Mass, not the Kyrie perhaps. I will look further into it. 🤔 But there is in the beginning a certain hint at a march, with disjointed rhythms and pronunciation of 'kyrie' (and both being an irreverential, funny treatment of a kyrie) that reminded me of Mass, so I thought that Schickele was quoting Bernstein. (Mass, first staged in 1971, this recorded in 1977).Here is a link btw of the Kyrie in Mass, not the best recording however, but it gives an impression what I was aiming at.
ua-cam.com/video/GJKsrJ8VS2Y/v-deo.html
The Stultifera Navis music society.
I have to wonder about the three people who down-voted this. Let me guess: people with no sense of irony whatsoever (and therefore more than a little dangerous)?
Many religious people tend to believe that God hates fun. I'm pretty Roman Catholic myself, but I just can't believe this: For if God hated fun, he would be poorer in His mind than we are; and claiming this is definitely blasphemous. Anathema!
@@burtashtongetz1427 I know someone who is the music director of a cathedral, and he finds this hilarious!!
To quote Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahey, "Humor too is one of His creations."
Exactly! I come from a family that is both religious (Anglican) and musical, and we’ve always found Schickele’s P.D.Q. Bach stuff hilarious 🤣 Of course musicians are a funny lot-I’ve never met one who didn’t have a well-developed sense of humor!
Well said Spooky!!!
Is the clapping between movements also intentional? That's not considered correct etiquette, but because this is P. D. Q. Bach, I must assume he told the audience to have at it.
Some scholars claim that the clapping is the best part of this composition. I am not sure if Prof. Schickele holds the same opinion.
@@burtashtongetz1427 Actually, he might. XD
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom The same etiquette appears to be prevalent among many other multi-movement works of PDQ Bach, so it's probably a PDQ Bach convention. Now whether or not his Big Daddy JS or Big-O-Brother CPE would've approved- the answers are merely imaginary! 😜
Dona nobis PASTA?
Yes, it's irritating: Why the nominative case? It should be the accusative, "pastam".
@@burtashtongetz1427 ROMANI ITE DOMUM
Romanes eunt domus.
@@burtashtongetz1427 Maybe accusative plural of a neuter noun "pastum"? :^P
Does this include the infamous Pastaphone?
Is he parodying Vivaldi? 1:38 - 2:01
Possibly ... are you thinking about some particular piece by Vivaldi (just don't say the Lagoon Yodler ...)?
@@burtashtongetz1427 it just sounds like a typical Vivaldi chord progression.
And Handel and Pachelbel.........
Certainly, I wouldn't play this in church. It is, after all, profoundly disrespectful. I strongly suspect that's on purpose, too. Most sacriligious. With complete honesty, I feel that I might actually be unable to bring myself to perform this even if I had to.
As a funny concert piece for the less reverent, however, this is absolutely lit.
If I weren't as Roman Catholic as I am, I wouldn't really get the jokes 😇
Who painted the artwork shown in the video?
It's the "musicians' hell", a detail from Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of earthly delights". This work was painted in the Netherlands around the year 1500, and today it's in Madrid's Prado Museum.
KOYAANISQATSI
Indeed, the Gloria does begin that way.
Well, that Orchestra went to Hell, in a moment of drunken debauchery.
This is so pathetic
Have some pity on poor P.D.Q. - just imagine you inherited one of the greatest names in music history, but not the talent!
More like a "Sinfonia dementique!"
@@burtashtongetz1427 lmao sad:(
That's the idea.😁