Favorite time period?

[DarioDrenton]

Classical.

 

[tuke]

Today, the Eighteenth century because I am reading Alexander Pope.

 

[willard3]

I put classical.

I also like a good Handel (Messiah and Giulio Cesare are amazing), and Bach wrote some cool stuff too. Some of Chopin's stuff is awesome, too.

 

[BubbaScott]

I chose baroque because of its rawness. At the time it was a new concept and was trendy.

 

[Envy2]

I'd have to say Baroque. I love the instrumentation, I love the way it sounds, I love the composers, I love what happened during that time period and all kinds of things.

However I listen to all of the others too, every period has it's gems.

 

[KimLCMS]

I put Romantic, but I truly do love music from every time period. I'm a trumpet player and there is a lot of wonderful brass stuff in the Romantic period. I have to say that, personally, I like playing music from the Baroque period.

It's really too difficult to pick just one time period!

 

[Christian Sojourner]

I'm surprised to see the Baroque with the most votes, but that's great. I unquestionably love the Baroque above all other eras, where Bach sits at God's musical right hand and Buxtehude at His left.

 

[The Madcap]

The Baroque era is obviously the king era of Organ. I also favor the Baroque's solo violin repertoire. Bach probably wrote the best solo violin music. However, Baroque music can be relatively predictable. The Classical era was good, but it would be so much more boring if it weren't for Mozart. The Classical era brought us Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, which is, in my opinion, the greatest work of this era. I think Mozart was the best orchestral composer, and Beethoven was the best piano music composer. The Romantic era definitely really brought out some virtuosity. Chopin and Liszt in particular. I think the Romantic era is the king in terms of piano music. With composers like Liszt, Chopin, Alkan, etc. in the Romantic era, I think the piano not only brought emotional characterization to a high level, but also virtuosity. The impressionist era will always be my favorite, though. This is when there really weren't "rules" to music. Debussy is my favorite composer, and he had unique and creative (although sometimes crazy to musical conservatives) styles to his composing. His use of orchestration and harmony is something that not many people did after Debussy, mainly because it was so "his thing". But I connect better with the harmonies and composition in this era more than any. As for the modern composers, I love Prokofiev, however I hate the composers who overdo the diminished and dissonant music like Sorabji. I find it very cheap composing only dedicated to musical difficulty.

 

[AFallingStar]

Classical and then romantic

 

[YoungPilgrim]

Impressionist. Débussy, Satie, Ravel... wonderful.

 

[Christian_Babe234]

I love both Classical and Romantic. But i chose Classical in the poll.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Lately I've really been getting into studying and performing early music. Instrumental music (especially of medieval Spain), troubador songs, plainchant, organum, Renaissance polyphony... Beautiful, fascinating stuff.

 

[SretlaxE]

baroque

 

[BrendanMark]

Medieval

 

[Christian Sojourner]

The Baroque! I believe the Baroque to be the highest pinnacle of music in the history of man. Bach being Prince.

 

[openup4christ]

I love Baroque music, but it came in a close 2nd to the Romantic Era. Nothing Beats Schubert, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, and Brahms IMO.

 

[IslandersSec306]

Give me Bach or give me death!

 

[lordrus]

Medieval to Modern and everthing in between.

 

[bluwaterz]

If it's not Baroque don't fix it..eh hem
I chose Baroque

 

[sammyf]

Baroque