Favourite Era or Peiod

[m2r]

I'm interested in the diversity of likings for styles or types of music.  So i just want to know what your favourite is. If you would like you can leave a comment stating your favourite composers or artists from that period.

[Bob]

You're bound to get compliants on your categories.

I'll go with late Romantic, so picked Romantic.

[m2r]

I figured I'd recieve complaints but music is what a person enjoys not nessisarily my point of view.

[Bob]

Can't argue with that.

[bigswifty]

I think the most stimulating stuff came with contemporary composers like Stravinsky and Varèse. In the late 20th century, Zappa did some really interesting things too. Especially with the Ensemble Modern. Everybody here should listen to Ruth is Sleeping from The Yellow Shark. He wrote that on the Synclavier originally, and for only one pianist. He later arranged it for two pianists. Then, when working with Zappa on The Yellow Shark, Ali N. Askin arranged the original synclavier-produced arrangement for two pianists. It is apparantly one of the hardest piano solos written (posssibly due to the fact it was written for a computer which is not limited by lack of skill).

[musicluvr49]

I have to go with Romantic as my favorite era. Not neccesarily because its the best, but I just love the harmony, and different things that happened with music in that time.

[pianist1976]

I think the most stimulating stuff came with contemporary composers like Stravinsky and Varèse.

Stravinsky died in 1971 and Varèse in 1965. It's been a long time since then, so in my opinion they must not be considered our contemporaries nor their music is contemporary  

And I agree with Zappa: he is an amazingly good "classical/cult" music composer (sorry for the stereotypes, I made it to differentiate from pop/rock music). His music took the attention of no ore, no less than a great musician as Boulez (!)

[bigswifty]

Stravinsky died in 1971 and Varèse in 1965. It's been a long time since then, so in my opinion they must not be considered our contemporaries nor their music is contemporary

I assumed that we were talking about contemporary classical (what I understood to have been music post-1945). If you'd prefer, I could replace Stravinsky and Varèse with Penderecki and Stockhausen in that list. Or even John Shuttleworth. He's the Shakespeare of the modern day.

[pianoplayjl]

I like romantic, contemporary and etc, which is dance pop, electrohouse and so on.