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Usnd At HoopleThe University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople is a fictional university that serves as the home institution for "Professor" Peter Schickele, where he is "renowned" as the greatest expert on the life and works of the (similarly "renowned") fictional composer P. D. Q. Bach, whom Schickele has termed "the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's twenty-odd children." It is to Hoople, North Dakota, that Professor Schickele returns "bach" from his research journeys. The name of the institution is fictional at another level: Hoople is not in Southern North Dakota, but instead in the northeastern part of the state. "Professor" Schickele has mentioned the institution in the spoken introductions on many albums of P.D.Q.'s music. It figures most prominently on the P.D.Q. Bach On The Air album, which purports to be a recording of a segment of the output of the university's radio station, WOOF. Schickele has served as professor in both the Musicolology and Musical Pathology Departments.
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