Testing the waters.

Self-explanatory really. Please provide detailed descriptions of the above votes in replies :closedeyes:

mwahahaha 100 percent, sooo true!

Not anymore.

I don't really like the choices on revivalism. I'm most heavily influenced by Brahms, and my sound is quite definitely Romantic, but I am by no means a revivalist and in fact disagree with the whole idea of revivalism. I simply write what comes intuitively, and Romanticism is my voice. I have a hard time seeing why people can't understand that.

When I wrote this poll, I was thinking of revivalism as an actual movement - pieces that people would call neo-classical, neo-renaissance, etc., not simply pieces that use a particular voice or style. I'm talking things that are purposefully constructed to sound a certain way, not just a composer's voice being one thing or another.

Personally, I can repsect those revivalist because it takes a great deal of effort to do what they are doing; however, it bores me. To me, it is writing like John Dowland during beethoven's time. In today's music you can do so much with so many different instruments. Why do people insist on not moving by 5ths and octaves all the time and pretending that trumpets don't have valves.

I believe if you really want to write like that, fine do so, but at least a put a little of whom you are into the piece. The last thing I need is to listen to a modern day bach. We have enough of real bach as there is.

Now on the flip side.

I think a lot of people now a days write atonal music because it is trendy and in fact really easy. In my high school theory class, there was a kid who said he wrote atonal music but in fact it was just mindless clutter and his inability to harmonize tonally.

I find professional and well thought out atonal music to be rather excellent but anything less is just crap.

I use to wonder the same thing, If I am just wondering around aimlessly, but I don't think I am so much more, mainly because I'm mixing romantic idioms in my atonal works, sort of as a stepping stone or training wheels to the real thing:)