The Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27, is a work of Peter Schickele composing under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach. The work is a parody of the classical double concerto but where one instrument, the hardart, uses different devices, such as plucked strings, blown whistles and popped balloons, to produce each note in its range. The name "hardart" and the name of the concerto is a play on the name of proprietors Horn & Hardart, who pioneered the North American use of the automat. Like the automat, the hardart had small windows in the front where the musician had to insert coins to remove implements needed to strike or otherwise play the devices that produced the notes. The composer Philip Glass, a classmate of Schickele's,[1] helped build the actual instrument; Glass and the others tasked with building the hardart made it a transposing instrument without telling Schickele,[2] who had to transpose at sight during the performance.[3] As with other works that Schickele attributed to P. D. Q. Bach, "beneath the satire one finds very sound technique and invention in the music."[4]
The first movement is in sonata form, though with numerous mishaps. It quotes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 29. The second is a set of variations which, as Schickele notes, have no relationship to the initial theme.[5] It quotes Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart). It concludes with a cadenza that shows off the abilities of the hardart. The third movement, a minuet ("with cream and sugar"), ends with the bursting of the balloons on the hardart.
A portion of the cadenza was sampled by the group Jurassic 5 in the song "Monkey Bars" on their album Quality Control.[6]
The inscription Minor Labor Matris on the hardart[5] is Latin for "Less Work for Mother", the advertising slogan adopted by Horn & Hardart in 1924.
Referencesedit
^Ravas, Tommy (2004). Peter Schickele – A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 5. ISBN9780313320705, citing Jean Oelrich, The Many Lives of Peter Schickele, p. 17
^Glass, Philip (2015). Words Without Music : A Memoir. London. p. 84. ISBN978-0-571-32373-9. OCLC 908632624.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Glass, Philip (2015-04-13). "Philip Glass' first lessons: Behind the scenes at Juilliard with a soon-to-be modern master". Salon. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
^"Peter Schickele - The Classical Music Guide Forums". classicalmusicguide.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
^ ab"Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27", work details and description, Carl Fischer Music
^"Jurassic 5 "Monkey Bars" – P. D. Q. Bach Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27", whosampled.com
External linksedit
Work details, schickele.com
Concerto for Horn and Hardart (audio, with a 3 minute spoken introduction) on YouTube
January 01, 1970
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