No_One_Else

Ahem. Well, you see Qmwne235, I was, uh... drunk on, uh... Bach's music, which caused me to forget about all those other composers... yep. Seriously, this thread still is flawed in a few ways regardless of my quite incorrect music history judgments. You know, I thought 20th century would come out on top, but Romantic seems to be taking the lead right now. Poor ancient/obscure eras...

Thanks, QC. I have come to realize how limited this poll is; how can one say that Baroque is one's favorite era when Bach is the biggest thing in that era, and other Baroque composers are somewhat insignificant? I say, "Choose the era that has a large amount of composers you enjoy"... but it's flawed thinking on my part, I tell you. EDIT: Bach is actually my favorite composer at this time, yet I choose Romantic Era because I like more composers in that era; for this reason, this poll has struck me as being imbalanced. Furthermore, as jujimufu brought up, "What about other classical music"? While I sympathize with myself on the choice of western classical music only, for this thread, I have to ask myself, "Wouldn't it be interesting to see how the preference for non-western music styles stand up?".

Ah... ahem. Well, you see, I meant just in the "classical" music world this time around, which I guess I wasn't careful enough to point out specifically. I actually thought of making a cultural music poll, though.

Well, that's good, jujimufu; I suppose I should have made an option for 'no favorite'... at the same time though, I don't have a true favorite, but I tend to enjoy more music from the Romantic Era. I suspect that could change any day, and I wouldn't be ashamed if it did.

Yes, that is certainly true in many respects.

What is your favorite era of classical music? Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, 20th century, or 'contemporary'? EDIT: Earnestly, I don't know for certain what my favorite is. I suppose I lean strongly toward the Romantic Era. Also, this should be a generally favorite era (i.e. your favorite composer is Stravinsky, but you have a large quantity of admired composers in the Romantic Era; choose the latter).

In terms of bigness, musicality, atmosphere, purpose and 'coolness', I thought this piece was great. In fact, some parts were just awesome. However, I didn't think it was so great in terms of re-listening value (perhaps too many repetitions?), twist (no harmonic changes popped out at me as being... inventive; maybe I'm just being a jerk, but I'm trying to get used to this critiquing thing), and depth (I have to say I did think the piece was lacking in 'intellectual' qualities, like counterpoint ). I completely understand you're not in your prime or probably anywhere close to it, so it can't be expected that the piece was masterful; considering that, I say well done, better than anything I can do right now.

The 'Limited Limitless Era'; or 'Unlimited Limit Era'. Oh wait! How about 'Infinite Undiscovery Era'! Or even better: The 'Musically Exhausted, But Not Really Musically Exhausted Era'!!!...(!11!!)

Thank you very much, cygnusdei, Nik Mikas, and composerorganist; I look forward to researching these things in more detail.

I've heard it said that wise men speak in riddles... Speaking of time, though, I think more composers should incorporate unusual time related aspects into their music... whether those views of 'time' are traditional or not. Also, Schumann's words make for good quotes.

SSC: Alois Haba is going to take some getting used to; I liked the White Man Sleeps piece from Kevin Volans; I also found the Ligeti you posted to be very interesting. jujimufu: Xenakis is also a composer I could get used to; I actually really liked Nicola LeFanu's "Catena" for 11 solo strings; and the more I hear Penderecki's music, the more I like it (actually, that goes for any composer - I'm just really liking Penderecki). By the way, who are some other female composers? You all have my thanks.

Thank you very much, jujimufu, for your suggestions. And SSC, that was worth reposting, thank you. I'm in the process of looking these things up now.

Thanks for your input. And yes, anything having to do with something other than the 12 tone equal temperament is welcome.

Now I understand how much you all hate the topic of tonality being brought up and all, but this -is- different. Does anybody here actually enjoy the concept or any products of the concept of micro-tonality? If so, can you tell me why, and can you then point out any composers of micro-tonal music that you enjoy listening to? Also, any interesting articles or writings you've read would be nice to know about. I ask because I am interested in micro-tonality and it's possibilities.

I'd say it's one thing if you intentionally put parallel fifths and octaves in there to go against common practice, and an entirely different thing if you ignorantly put them in there. In the context of common practice, this piece was very nearly horrible; however, in and of itself, it was pretty nice. I liked it.