whats your favorite musical era?

[communist]

i know i spelled comtemperary wrong 

[dnephi]

Communism is my favorite, followed by Catholicism and Buddhism.

[gerryjay]

Communism is my favorite, followed by Catholicism and Buddhism.

don't forget about serialism, dadaism, and existentialism.

[thalbergmad]

My favourite era is comtemporary.

I could listen to Finnissy, Barlow & Barrett all day.

Thal

[communist]

what do you to mean by catholicism and everything that dose not have to do with communism or the topic? 

[pianogeek_cz]

May I suggest looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony?

To answer the original, albeit arbitrary question, 1st half of the 20th century.

[pianochick93]

I like all romantic, but we couldn't vote more than once so I put late romantic, becuase that is where Rachmaninoff's stuff is placed.

[gerryjay]

May I suggest looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony?

hey geek!
 1000 times .
 thanks for the link. i only hope i didn't wake up the neighboors with my laughs!

[ihatepop]

My favorite is the early romantic. Small fusion between classical and heavy romantic. I like it.

ihatepop

[arensky]

i know i spelled comtemperary wrong 

Willful proletarian ignorance.... 


I like polls but I can't vote in this one, I like all of that music. 

[gerryjay]

Willful proletarian ignorance.... 

 

[pianowolfi]

don't forget about serialism, dadaism, and existentialism.

I am serious about "existentialism", it's my favorite "era" and it's actually what I want to do in music . I mean, there is nothing like that in music yet, so I just claim that I am the founder of this genre . If somebody knows more I am very open to corrections. But so far I haven't heard of any musical genre "existentialism". If somebody else already founded this genre I would be happy to follow his/her footsteps but if not, I officially claim here, on ps, to be the first one.

(Btw I *love* dadaism )

[gerryjay]

 hey wolfie!
 i think you just made history up here.

 there was no musical existentialism until you, dude! now it's just a matter of compose some actual music, or to set forth some aesthetical principles (if you don't want to get tired in the process of being a genius).
 it's interesting that the movement would be separated of its intelectual principles by almost a century, but music sometimes is slower than other fields of knowledge (just think about the romantic era), so i guess you have time yet to acomplish your goal.

 btw, if people acknowledge you as the founder of this musical language, i have an official petition also: to be recognized as the first scholar to notice this emergent tendency, hence claiming all the intelectual rights over any academic quotation about you or your musical trends.
 now, please, get famous and imortal soon!

[dnephi]

intelectual acomplish intelectual imortal

Puns on the spelling of comtemporary?  

Either way..

[point of grace]

which composers would be early romantic?

[retrouvailles]

which composers would be early romantic?

Mendelssohn, Hummel, Herz, Clementi, Czerny, the various Salon composers, and many others I can't think of now.

I voted for contemporary. It's the musical period with the most variety and the one that is in the most need of appreciation and attention.

[point of grace]

Mendelssohn, Hummel, Herz, Clementi, Czerny, the various Salon composers, and many others I can't think of now.

I voted for contemporary. It's the musical period with the most variety and the one that is in the most need of appreciation and attention.

clementi and czerny? i thought they were pure classical

i also voted for contemporaryy!!!!!!!!

[pianowolfi]

hey wolfie!
 i think you just made history up here.

 there was no musical existentialism until you, dude!

good to know
 

now it's just a matter of compose some actual music,

I wouldn't have claimed that if I hadn't already composed a set of pieces which is pure existentialism and is called "Styx. A Long Journey" The official premiere of this piano solo program with short texts about life, death and love was on October 18th 2007 so this is, I guess the official start of Existentialism, then

or to set forth some aesthetical principles (if you don't want to get tired in the process of being a genius).
 it's interesting that the movement would be separated of its intelectual principles by almost a century, but music sometimes is slower than other fields of knowledge (just think about the romantic era), so i guess you have time yet to acomplish your goal.

 btw, if people acknowledge you as the founder of this musical language, i have an official petition also: to be recognized as the first scholar to notice this emergent tendency, hence claiming all the intelectual rights over any academic quotation about you or your musical trends.
 now, please, get famous and imortal soon!

Thanks I'll try my best

I'm not so sure about the academic principles though, in that to be a musical existentialist in my sense there is "only" (well it's quite heavy sometimes hence the quotes) required to make music as a result of an examination of existential questions, i.e. life/death/existence/love/being/consciousness etc. so you see that this is a very free movement and not yet academically graspable.

[gerryjay]

I wouldn't have claimed that if I hadn't already composed a set of pieces which is pure existentialism and is called "Styx. A Long Journey" The official premiere of this piano solo program with short texts about life, death and love was on October 18th 2007 so this is, I guess the official start of Existentialism, then 8)Thanks I'll try my best

thanks for the research information. now i´m eager for that kind of details to write my soon-to-be-published book wolfi and the musical existentialism.

"to be a musical existentialist in my sense there is "only" required to make music as a result of an examination of existential questions, i.e. life/death/existence/love/being/consciousness etc." (WOLFI, 2008)

excuse me but i must disagree with your consideration that the movement isn´t graspable yet. as you can see, you already give me elements for academic considerations and debate. my analysis and research are in progress!

[imchopin]

People like me, who do not know much about musical eras, tend to lump them all together and call it 'classical music'... I love it all, so I vote 'classical' 

[gerryjay]

I love it all, so I vote 'classical' 

that´s the perfect vote. i second that! 

[i heart xenakis]

Darmstadt forward.

[indutrial]

I voted for contemporary. It's the musical period with the most variety and the one that is in the most need of appreciation and attention.

Seconded. The greater part of my interest is Debussy/Faure forward. I certainly appreciate the other periods, especially baroque/classical, but the music of neoclassicism, serialism, etc... definitely has much more variety and plenty of tangible attachments to the other periods...so it's really like you're getting them all at once.