Peter Schickele's published work includes more than 100 pieces written for symphony orchestra, choral group, chamber ensemble, solo instrument, and voice. Works by Peter Schickele listed in blue. Pieces attributed to the mythical 18th century composer P.D.Q. Bach listed in gold, and pieces attributed to Professor Peter Schickele, musical pathologist, listed in orange.
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The Abduction of Figaro, Overture
After Spring Sunset
All in Green Went My Love Riding
Alvin is the Flower Man
Amazing Grace
American Birthday Card
And the Band Began
And the Day Begins (Susan Gets Up)
Answers to Questions We are Often Asked
Art of the Ground Round
Ask Me No Questions
Aspendicitis
Autumn Trio
Baby Won’t You Please
Bachanale
Bach Portrait
Baptism — a Journey Through Our Time
Beatleset
Bestiary
Beverly Glen
Big People, Small People
Birthday Ode to “Big Daddy” Bach
The Birth of Christ
Blake’s Proverbs
Blaues Gras
Blue Set No. 1
Blue Set No. 2
Blue Window
The Boston Wonder
Brass Calendar
Breakfast Antiphonies
Broadway Boogie
The Brothers Joad
Canine Cantata: “Wachet Arf!”
Canone a 3 Voci Boozi
Cantata Singalonga: “Melior Cave Canem”
Canzona
Canzonetta “La Hooplina”
Canzon Per Sonar a Sei—Count Them—Sei
Capriccio “La Pucelle de New Orleans”
Carnival of the Animals
Carol: I Sing of a Maiden
Celebration With Bells
Ceremonial March
Ceremony
Chaconne à Son Gout
Chapbook
Charge to the Senior Class
The Charlotte Letter
The Chenoo Who Stayed To Dinner
Chorale Prelude “Ah”
Chorale Prelude: “Should”
Classical Rap
Come on Out
Come to the Arcady Music Festival
Commedia
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Concerto for Bassoon vs. Orchestra
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra—In Memoriam F.D.R.
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Concerto for Horn and Hardart
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
Concerto for Piano & Chorus, “The Twelve Months”
Concerto for Piano vs. Orchestra
Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Two Pianos vs. Orchestra
The Condition of My Heart
A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols
Cool Boogie Blues
Cool Clear Walter
Could it Be
The Crazy Quilt
Cyndi
Dances for Three
David’s Dream
DCB
Dear Madeleine
Deep Funk, Part 2
Delta Jukebox
Different People
D’Indy’s Turkey
Diptych
Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions
Diversions
Divertimento
The Divine Image
Dona Nobis Pacem
Don’t Deny
Don’t Look Back
Double Diptych
Dream Dances
Duo Caprice
Dutch Suite In G Major
Eagle Rock
Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups Of Instruments
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik
Elegies
Elegy
Elegy for Lennie
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Epitaphs
Erotica Variations
Every Time
Exchanges of Information
Family Man
Fanfare for a Lost Cause
Fanfare for Fred
Fanfare for the Common Cold
Fanfare for the Well-Read Baron
Fantasieshtick
The Fantastic Garden
Fantasy
Fantasy for Organ
Far Away from Here
Fat Cats Are Few and Far
Feel Free
Fili Mi Absalon
Film for the Texas Pavillion at the Hemisfair
Finish Line at the Rat Race
Fire, Fleet, and Candlelight
Five of a Kind
The Flow of Memory
Flyin’ Home to You
Folk Song Set
For You But You
For Now the Fragrant Flowers Do Spring
4:00 A.M., June; The Sky Was Green
Four Curmudgeonly Canons
Four Folk Song Upsettings
Four Next-To-Last Songs
Four Pop Settings
Four Pieces for Piano
Four Rounds
Four Sketches
Fuga Meshuga
Fugue of the Volga Boatmen
Funnyman
Garbage
Gardens
A Garland of Rags
Get Out Alone
Gigging On the Go
Girls
Give Me an Inch
God Don’t Give
Go for Broke
Going on a Moonwalk (The Minute I Got Out of Bed)
“Goldbrick” Variations
Good Time Ticket (song)
Good Time Ticket (instrumental)
Gott Sei Dank, Dass Heute Freitag Ist
Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Instruments
Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds And Percussion
Gross Concerto
Gross Concerto No. 2
The Grossest Fugue
Guide My Soul
Hansel & Gretel & Ted & Alice
Happy Birthday, Beth
Harvard Fair
He Built Him a Home
Hedi McKinley
Here I Am
Here We Have an Issue
Here’s to the OK Mozart Festival
Here's What Matters
Highways of Your Time
Hindenburg Concerto
Hoarse Trojan
Hollers, Hymns & Dirges
Homin’ Pigeon
Hornsmoke
The Household Moose
“Howdy” Symphony
How Sweet the Winds Do Blow
Hunger
Hush Little Baby
I Can’t Remember
I Can’t Share Love
I Don’t Have a Song to Sing
I Like the Mornings
I Like the Look
I Never Thought I’d Meet You
I Want It
If I Stay
If It Ain’t One Damn Thing (Gonna Pack it All In)
If It’s Gone, Let it Go
If Love is Real
If Music
If You Will Try It
In My Experience
In My Mind
In My Nine Lives
In the Shadow of the Moon
Incantations
Invention
Iphigenia In Brooklyn
Israel
It’s the Eyes That Do It
Joan
Johann Sebastian Bach
Joy To The World, Especially Out Of Work Musicians
Jukebox No. 1
Just Watching Sky
Karla, Karla
Kind of Keeping Track of Joanne
“Knock, Knock”
Konzertshtick for Two Violins Mit Orchestra
The Last Supper
Last Tango in Bayreuth
Laugh if You Want To
Legend
Let’s Forget About Tomorrow Tonight
Liebeslieder Polkas
A Likely Story (film score)
A Likely Story (song)
Lip My Reeds
Little Fugue
Little London Trio
A Little Mosey Music
Little Mushrooms
A Little Nightmare Music
Little Notebook for "Piggy" Bach
Little Pickle Book (Pöckelbüchlein)
Little Suite for Autumn
Little Suite for Josie
Little Suite for Summer (Piano, 4 Hands)
Little Suite for Summer (orchestra)
Little Suite for Susan
Little Suite for Winter
A Little Welcome Serenade
Long Live The King
Love Has to Change
The Lowest Trees Have Tops
Lullaby for Laada
The Magic Bassoon
The Magic Wood
Maiden on the Moor
Mama
Man-Eating Tiger
March Of The Cute Little Wood Sprites
Maria
The Mary Variations
Mass for Men’s Voices
Metropolitan Wind Serenade
Minuet Militaire
Missa Hilarious
Molly Asked Molly’s Mother
The Monk’s Aria
Monochrome I
Monochrome II
Monochrome III
Monochrome IV
Monochrome V
Monochrome VI
Moon Over Woodstock
Morning Music
Morning, Noon and Night
Mountain Music I
Mozart On Parade
Much Too Soon
The Mule
The Musical Sacrifice
Music for an Evening
Music for a Wedding
Music for Judy
Music for Mary
Music for Orcas Island
My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord
My Mother Told Me
Nellermojo
Never See the Light of Day Again
New Century Suite
New Goldberg Variations
“New Horizons in Music Appreciation” (Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast)
Night Music
Nights at the Bear
Noel: the Joan Baez Christmas Songbook
No-No Nonette
Notebook for Betty-Sue Bach
Now I Was Born in Iowa
Octet
Octoot
Oedipus Tex
Of the Dark Past
Oh! Calcutta!
Oh, Little Child
Old Welsh Song
One for the Money
One-Way Window
The Only Piece Ever Written for Violin and Tuba
On This Plain of Mist
O Serpent
Overture to “The Civilian Barber” (Piano, 4 Hands)
Overture to “The Civilian Barber” (Orchestra)
Overture to “La Clemenza di Genghis Khan”
Part-Time Invention
Pasadena Sunday Morning
Passacaglia In C Minus
Pavilion Piece
P.D.Q. and Betty-Sue
Pentangle
Percussion Sonata No. 1 “Aspen”
Percussion Sonata No. 2 “Woodstock”
Percussion Sonata No. 3 “Maverick”
Perückenstück (Hairpiece from The Civilian Barber)
Pervertimento
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Major
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major (“Ole!”)
Piano Trio “Alaria”
Poland
Polka from “Hornsmoke”
Pomp and Circumstance, Marches #1, 2, 3 & 4
The Preachers Of Crimetheus
Prelude in C major
Prelude to “Einstein on the Fritz”
Presents I
Presents II
Pretty Lady
The Priests of the Raven Dawn
Quartet
Queen Anne’s Lace
The Queen Was Loved by A Jester
Quintet No. 1
Quintet No. 2
Quodlibet
Ragtempus Fugit
Razzle-Dazzle Triptych
Reality
Rejoice in the Sun
Requiem
Requiem Mantras
Results of the Contest
Ritual
The Rivals
River Music
River Run
Rounds for Squares
Roundup
Roundup at the Raunch
Royal Firewater Musick (Dudeldorf Version)
Royal Firewater Musick (Original Version)
“Safe” Sextet
Saint George and the Dragon
“Sanka” Cantata
Sarah Banned
Scenes From Breughel
Schleptet
The Seasonings
Selena
Sequiturs
Serenade
Serenade for Eleven Instruments
Serenade for Six
Serenade for Three
Serenude
Seven Bagatelles
Seven Miniatures
1712 Overture
Shepherd on the Rocks, With A Twist
She Won’t Leave Home
She’s Gone
The Short-Tempered Clavier
Should
Show Me How
Silently, Invisibly
Silent Running (film score)
Silent Running (song)
Sincere Replies
Sinfonia Concertante
Six Contrary Dances
Six Studies
Slow Train, Long Haul
Small Serenade
A Small World
Smaze
Sneaky Pete and the Wolf
So Good To See You Isabelle
Somebody’s Changed Her Mind
Someday
Sometimes in the Morning
Sonata “Abassoonata”
Sonata da Circo
Sonata for Viola Four Hands
Sonata Innamorata
Sonata Piccola
Song of Innocents
Songs for Baritone, Bassoon, and Trombone
Songs from Shakespeare
Songs from “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”
Songs I Taught My Mother
Song Without Singer
The Sounds of Alienation
Spring Serenade
Stepping Out
The Stoned Guest
String Quartet in F major (“The Moose”)
String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams”
String Quartet No. 2 “In Memoriam”
String Quartet No. 3 “The Four Seasons”
String Quartet No. 4 “Inter-Era Dance Suite”
String Quartet No. 5 “A Year in the Country”
String Quintet No. 1
String Sextet
String Trio
Such Should
Suite from “The Civilian Barber”
Suite from “The Rivals”
Suite No. 1 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
Summer Music
Summer Serenade
Summer Trio
Sunlight On the Moon
Sweet Visions (film score)
Sweet Visions (song)
Swing Sweet, Low Chariot
Symphony No. 1 “Songlines”
Symphony No. 2 “The Sweet Season”
Take Me Back to Funk, Nebraska
Take Me With You
Tangowaltz for David Zinman
Tell Me
Tell Me Dearest, What is Love
Terra Cotta
Then Like Clover
There’s Gonna be Trouble
There’s Just One Road to Heaven
Things To Try on a Summer Day
Three Chorale-Based Piecelets
Three Choruses from e e cummings
Three Faces of Eve
Three Folk Settings
Three Girls, Three Women
Three Glances Over the Shoulder
Three Meditations
Three Piano Sonatinas
Three Pirate Songs
3 Riddle Films
Three Scenes for Five Instruments
Three Songs
Three Songs for a Wedding
Three-Step Crab Dinner
Three Strange Cases
Three Teeny Preludes
Three Uncharacteristic Pieces
Thurber’s Dogs
Time Nor You
Timepiece
Tombeau de P.D.Q. Bach
Toot Suite
Top o’ the Millennium
Traumarei
The Tribe of Ahasuerus
Trio Serenade
Trio (Sic) Sonata
The “Trite” Quintet
Trumpet Involuntary
Turn and Go
Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs
Two-Bit Epiphanies
Two and a Half Variations on “In Dulci Jubilo”
Two Autobiographical Rounds
Two Hearts, Four Lips, Three Little Words
Two Madrigals from “The Triumphs of Thusnelda”
Two Meditations
Two Miniatures
Two Pleasant Songs
Two Prayers
Two Songs on Elizabethan Lyrics
Tyrannosaurus Rex
The Unbegun Symphony
Uncle Poody Sugars Off
Uptown Hoedown
Variations on a Joke
Variations on a Medieval Theme
Variations on an Unusually Simple-Minded Theme
A Veritable Paean of Praise
Vermillion Suite
The View from the Roof
Viola Dreams
Sonata in D major for Piano “Walled Stein”
Weiss und Rot
What Did You Do Today At Jeffey’s House? (French Horn and Orchestra)
What Did You Do Today At Jeffey’s House? (French Horn and Piano)
Where the Garbage Goes
Where the Wild Things Are
Who Murdered the Minutes
Wild Bill Hickock Rides Again
Wild Windy Rooms of My Home
Windows
WNYC
Woe Is the Singer
A Year In The Catskills
Yes I Heard You
You Should See Her
You Were Gone
You’re Gonna Need Me
You’re Six Years Old My Son
A Zoo Called Earth