Favourite period in music history?

[Florestan]

The poll-man strikes again!

The timetable might not be accurate, but you get the idea, I hope.

3 votes allowed.

[71 dB]

Strange limits for the periods. For me applies:

Renaissance (1400 - 1600)
Baroque (1600 - 1750)
Classical (1750 - 1820)
Romantic (1820 - 1920)

Anyway, middle/late baroque (1650-1750) and late romantic (1870-1920) are my favorite periods.

[Harry]

Which is your favourite period?
You may only select up to 3 options. 
Antiquity (up to 5th century A.D.)*
Mediaeval (5th century A.D. - 1300)*
Renaissance (1300 - 1600)*
Baroque (1600 - 1750)*
Classical (1750 - 1800)*
Romantic (1800 - 1900)*
Modern (1900  - 1950)*
Contemporary (after 1950)

It is not possible to select only three Florestan my friend.
So make it seven choices.

[BachQ]

Gothic is my fave . . . . . . .

[Maciek]

Most of you already know this - my favorite is Contemporary. So I also ticked Modern. And added Baroque for good measure.

Maciek

[hornteacher]

Classical, Romantic, Modern.

[Don]

Strange limits for the periods. For me applies:

Renaissance (1400 - 1600)
Baroque (1600 - 1750)
Classical (1750 - 1820)
Romantic (1820 - 1920)

Anyway, middle/late baroque (1650-1750) and late romantic (1870-1920) are my favorite periods.

Same here.

[prémont]

Usually Machaut (d.1377) is considered to be a Medieval composer and Landini (d.1397) a Renaissance composer.
Ca. 1370 (and neither 1300 nor 1400) may therefore be considered as the end of the Medieval period.

BTW my favourite periode is the Baroque (1600-1750).

[facehugger]

i cannot choose

i choose early 20th century

[Todd]

I need five categories - 1600 through today (and most likely tomorrow). 

[The Emperor]

Modern because of that composer i love...you know who

[Gurn Blanston]

I shall have to define my own period: the transition from Classico-Romantic to Romanti-Classical, which is to say, the  50 years from 1780 to 1830.

[Don]

Modern because of that composer i love...you know who

No idea.

[SonicMan46]

I shall have to define my own period: the transition from Classico-Romantic to Romanti-Classical, which is to say, the  50 years from 1780 to 1830.

Gurn and I are probably pretty much similar in this time era - i.e. I'd have to pick the mid-18th century into the early 19th century, basically the 'classic' period; however, I have plenty of music from all of these mentioned choices. 

[hornteacher]

I shall have to define my own period: the transition from Classico-Romantic to Romanti-Classical, which is to say, the  50 years from 1780 to 1830.

Let's just call it the Beethovenian Period. 

[Varg]

Romantic/Modern/Contemporary

[Gurn Blanston]

Let's just call it the Beethovenian Period. 

Well, we could if we were just willing to scratch the surface...

[George]

Baroque

Classic

Romantic


EASY AS PIE! 

[SonicMan46]

Well, we could if we were just willing to scratch the surface...

Gurn is right, of course - there were just too many other composers, styles, and musical quality to label these years under any one composer's name, even Beethoven - as a 'poor' but maybe appropriate analogy is the moniker of Paul Whiteman in the 1920s & early '30s as the King of Jazz - yes, he led an orchestra & conducted the Rhapsody in Blue in the late '20s, but there was SO MUCH going on in jazz at the time to label the period as the 'Whiteman Era' - the 'classic period' is still fine w/ me - 

[hornteacher]

Gurn is right, of course - there were just too many other composers, styles, and musical quality to label these years under any one composer's name, even Beethoven

Oh wait, what was that in my cheek?  Oh yeah, it was my tongue.