Are you more emotional or analytical in your tastes?

[Crudblud]

I don't see that Schoenberg's music is "analytical", but then I don't think I have heard any music which I would describe as "emotional" either, whether of Schumann or anyone else. The listening experience certainly could be emotional, analytical, academic, or anything else, and more than one of those at a time, but it seems to me that music by its very nature resists any such labels I might try to use to pin it down. I think for me this is part of music's appeal, it effortlessly eludes any desire on the part of the listener to set it in concrete. On that basis I'm not sure that I really belong in this thread, since I don't buy into the dichotomy (if it is intended to be a dichotomy) between the two, or even the idea that the terms given adequately describe any music at all.

[Florestan]

Ah, now I see what you mean, the emotional ones are just the ones you like.

I think he inverted the causality. He probably meant "I find them more emotional, hence I prefer them." At least that's the way I would put it.

[Mandryka]

I think he inverted the causality. He probably meant "I find them more emotional, hence I prefer them." At least that's the way I would put it.

Much less confident than you about that given that Schoenberg's 3rd quartet was positively dripping with emotion when I listened to it after drinking half a bottle of Chianti.

[Florestan]

Much less confident than you about that given that Schoenberg's 3rd quartet was positively dripping with emotion when I listened to it after drinking half a bottle of Chianti.

Why, of course it's all very personal and subjective and there are lots of extramusical factors at play, including but not limited to what you said.