Schleptet in Eb Major (score & parts) - FL/OB/BSN/HN/STG3

I. Molto larghissimo; Allegro boffo

II. Menuetto con brio ma senza trio

III. Adagio saccharino

IV. Yehudi menuetto

V. Presto hey nonny nonnio

This piece, written for seven of the most common instruments around, proves (if proof is necessary) that the excruciating je ne sais quois of PDQ Bach's Soused Period pieces cannot be blamed solely on the use of unrefined instruments such as the windbreaker and the left-handed sewer flute. The work is obviously a fairly late opus, since it is indebted (to put it kindly) to Beethoven's Septet in the same key. Itis in five short movements, or, as PDQ Bach called them, shots; the last of these shows the influence of a band of gypsies by whom PDQ Bach was impressed, and, as he later discovered, robbed.