P.D.Q. Bach: Diverse Ayres On Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100

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These three songs, Do you suffer, Hear me through, and if you have never are extraordinary examples of what are perhaps the first singing commercials in history which were concocted by P.D.Q. Bach for a much-needed money-making enterprise in 1795 when commissions from Prince Fred for such royal occasions as one of his sons losing a tooth proved few and far between, the P.D.Q. Traveling Medicine Show, which left Wein-am-Rhein in the spring and returned eight months later with P.D.Q. a wealthy man. They were originally composed for singer and drum and later unfortunately rescored in Baden -Baden-Baden for Bargain Counter Tenor, Worm & Snake, Violin, Viola, Cello and Harpsichord. in this published arrangement, cunningly transcribed by Prof. Schickele, the Worm & Snake, and the Strings are happily gone, leaving only the keyboard accompaniment. Prof. Schickele remarks in a performance note that, " The first movement of the original Diverse Ayres, A Sinfonia for the instruments alone, has been omitted from this transcription, the feeling being that discretion is the better part of valor, not mention pity." for ad agency executives, TV addicts, and soda jerks.