You can include Renaissance if you'd like, but I haven't listened to much of it at all to have an opinion on it.

 

Atonal is not an era, and there's plenty of contemporary music that is not atonal.

 

But it is the dominant form in Contemporary, correct? This is what they teach composition students at conservatories, right?

 

From most to least favourite:

Romantic
Modern
Contemporary
Classical
Renaissance
Baroque*

Except Bach. He's my #1 even though he was baroque.

 

I don't have a preference and listen to all in about equal measure. Almost every day I listen to some Bach/Couperin/Froberger/Rameau and then to some Schoenberg and Brahms and Schubert and Lutoslawski. I like the variety. I would get bored fast if I listened only to romantic for example, because if you listen too much to it, most of the symphonies start to sound pretty similar.

 

Why does one have to rate one era over another?

 

You don't! I for one have a preference though.

 

"Romantic/Impressionisitc"

Hmmm. Ravel and especially Debussy have a far greater (and more meaningful) overlap with modernism than with romanticism. We think of Debussy the great innovator, not the author of Valse Romantique and the piano trio.

 

I wasn't linking them together, I was just saying those two eras are tied for me in the number one spot.

 

My favorites eras are: Romanticism, late-Romanticism, post-Romanticism, neo-Romanticism (I think all of them are different) ,
20th century (not all of it), Impressionism, partly Classicism.

I'm not very fond of Baroque, Renaissance and Middle Age, but I respect them profoundly.

 

Impossible! Personally, I do not (yet) get or spend much time with pre-Baroque music. But, for then on, I can't think of an era (up to the present day) that is somehow better or worse than the others. I spend wonderful time with them all. I could not say whether any of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Brahms is better or greater than any of the others - not personally or "objectively" - and then in each era there are so many others who are as great. Riches abound.

 

Once again, Medieval music is slighted! [[[[[[]sigh]]]]]]

 

This thread is not going well, haha. I have offended you all I think!

 

Contemporary
Modern
Romantic
Renaissance/Medieval
Classical
Baroque

 

Is Modern another term for Impressionistic? What are some Contemporary composers/works you enjoy?

 

Tough question as it's mostly dependent on my mood, but:

1. Romantic
2. Modern
3. Classical
4. Baroque
5. Renaissance/Medieval
6. Contemporary (mostly do to my lack of familiarity)

 

My favorite era is 1770-1827

 

1. Baroque (only because of Bach)
2. Modern
3. Late Romantic
4. Classical
5. Romantic
5. Pre-Baroque
6. Contemporary

 

I've noticed 80% of my favorite listening was composed between 1780 and 1830 so I guess late classical and early romantic. The other 20% are pretty equally divided between all other time periods.

 

If you don't know Classical music, then you can't know Baroque music. It's a simple trick that history has lied about, it's just superior. 20 inch speakers make the difference but don't get to the heart of the issue.

 

Any as long as its post 1911

 

This pretty much describes me. Except that I use 1919 as my cutoff date.

20th century up through, and including, contemporary are my favorite eras, and pretty much all I listen to.

 

Contemporary (1945 to present)
Modern (1890 to 1945)
Romantic
Baroque
Classical
Renaissance
Medieval

 

Romantic
Medieval
Impressionistic
Modern, post 1921
Baroque
Classical

 

You terminology is slightly off. The correct term is Contemporary (Adult). Some real classics there, I'm not sure why they're your least favorite.

 

You terminology is slightly off. The correct term is Contemporary (Adult). Some real classics there, I'm not sure why they're your least favorite.
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1. Modern/Postromantic
2. Renaissance
3. Classical
4. Romantic
5. Baroque
6. Midieval
7. Postmodern

 

Romantic
Impressionisitc
Classical
Baroque
Contemporary
Renaissance
Medieval
Cave man music
Gustave Mahler

 

 

I tend to be more aware of the decade rather than the era with most music I listen to

2010s
2000s
1980s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1990s
1910s
Late Romantic (post-Wagner) and Mid Romantic (particularly for Wagner's mature works)
1900s
Medieval
Baroque
Renaissance
1920s
Classical
1930s
1940s
Early Romantic

 

1. Romanticism

The best (Wagner, Bruckner, Chopin). (But also some of the worst)

2. Modernism

Most creative and productive period in classical music history but I don't think it produced any absolute geniuses like the Romantic era did. At least there are no pieces as profound as Bruckner's 9th, Mahler's 10th, Parsifal, etc. Stravinsky isn't even my favorite composer of this era but he comes closest to the definition of "genius."

3. Renaissance

Amazingly beautiful music. This period is very long and much more diverse than is often recognized. Everyone but deprofundis underrates Renaissance music :lol:

4. Baroque

10% Glory, 90% click-clack continuo. The Glory (several cantatas by Bach, mostly the Actus Tragicus, and his masses/passions/oratorios) is definitely worth it though

5. Classical

I love Mozart but not much else

 

I'm not sure that modern era hasn't produced any profound pieces

There's Stra vinskys Rite of Spring, which certainly is a very different type of profound.

Shostakovichs symphonies, particularly 5,7,10,14, and 15 I consider to be very profound.

Prokofiev Romeo and juliet and fifth symphony (also piano and violin concertos)

There's also plenty of ravel and Britten works that I would call profound. But I guess what matters what your definition is.
Dictionary defines it as "very great or intense." Still kind of vague...

 

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