French horn, piano, page turner, string bass, trumpet, clarinet, another French horn, tuba (1970)

The three-movement sonaga (sic) quotes melodies from previously written pieces but the emphasis is on the numerous sight gags. (See list below.) When Prof. Peter Schickele, long-time confidant of P.D.Q. Bach, visited the university I was attending, I gave him the Sonaga score and told him to use anything in it he wanted. And, unless he thought of the gags separately, he did: Several of the Sonaga’s theatrical elements can be heard on P.D.Q. Bach’s “Concerto for Two Pianos vs. Orchestra.”