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Knock, Knock Choral Cantata by PDQ Bach Choir - Sheet Music

By PDQ Bach

This choral cantata is a setting of a number of jokes in different genres, including the one about the amorous porpoises, baby seagulls and staid lion.Just how secular can cantatas get? This age-old question has been given a seemingly definitive answer with P.D.Q. Bach's unique choral cantata KNOCK, KNOCK. Like many of us, P.D.Q. was disturbed by that fact that he could never remember jokes he'd heard when he wanted to tell them later, so what he often did was, when he heard a joke he particularly liked, he would immediately set it to music, this making it easier to remember, sort of like the opposite of how people often put words to instrumental themes in order to give them a firmer cranial foothold.

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Summary
Instrument:
Choir Double Bass Flute Harpsichord Tenor Voice Alto Voice Soprano Voice Baritone Voice Bass Voice
Ensembles:
Choir
Genres:
Classical Comedy
Composers:
PDQ Bach
Publishers:
Theodore Presser Company
UPC:
680160088478
Format:
Performance Score Octavo
Item types:
Physical
Musical forms:
Cantata
Artist:
PDQ Bach
Usages:
School and Community
Number of Pages:
36
Size:
6.875 x 10.5 inches
Shipping Weight:
0.19 pounds
Detailed Description
Choral Contrabass voice, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Harpsichord, alto voice, baritone voice bass voice, bass voice, soprano voice, tenor voice

SKU: PR.412410730

Choral Cantata. Composed by PDQ Bach. Edited by Professor Peter Schickele. Octavo. Choral. Performance Score. With Standard notation. S 4/1/2008. 36 pages. Duration 0:14:00. Theodore Presser Company #412-41073. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.412410730).

UPC: 680160088478. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Text: Peter Schickele.

This choral cantata is a setting of a number of jokes in different genres, including the one about the amorous porpoises, baby seagulls and staid lion.
Just how secular can cantatas get? This age-old question has been given a seemingly definitive answer with P.D.Q. Bach's unique choral cantata KNOCK, KNOCK. Like many of us, P.D.Q. was disturbed by that fact that he could never remember jokes he'd heard when he wanted to tell them later, so what he often did was, when he heard a joke he particularly liked, he would immediately set it to music, this making it easier to remember, sort of like the opposite of how people often put words to instrumental themes in order to give them a firmer cranial foothold.

Song List

  • I. RECITATIVE AND CHORUS: "Knock, knock"

  • II. RECITATIVE AND CHORUS: "How many psychiatrists"

  • III. RECITATIVE AND CHORALE: "What is the question"

  • IV. RECITATIVE AND CHORUS: "So this guy"

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