Favourite Era For Music?
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I reckon singlecoil calls it about right about the 60's WRT recent decades, for its combination of rock / pop / folk / psychedelic genres.
But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
vournikas said:
I reckon singlecoil calls it about right about the 60's WRT recent decades, for its combination of rock / pop / folk / psychedelic genres.
But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
Well if you want to get into that one then the Js Bach wrote the best counterpoint and that was in the late 17th century!But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
We still study his harmony so it must be good!!
Simes205 said:
vournikas said:
I reckon singlecoil calls it about right about the 60's WRT recent decades, for its combination of rock / pop / folk / psychedelic genres.
But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
Well if you want to get into that one then the Js Bach wrote the best counterpoint and that was in the late 17th century!But IMVHO the best era for music was the early 1800's to the 1930's. It starts with - oddly - the end of the "classical" era and the beginning of the "romantic" era when the likes of Chopin / Lizst / Schumann / Brahms wrote groundbreaking melodic stuff. It ends with the likes of Vaughan-Williams / Elgar / Debussy etc still writing stuff that had a "nod" to previous composers, but started introducing more "challenging" passages in their music.
After the 1930's, we get to stuff from (for example) Stravinsky and Schoenberg
We still study his harmony so it must be good!!
As I was writing my previous post, the spectre of JSB was crossing my mind as he is on a pedestal - for me - as a composer. But he's the exception in the baroque era. I find the rest of the stuff from that period pretty tiresome; Vivaldi especially.
I think the answer tends to be the decade you grew up in - your formative teenage years where you find your taste and consume so much music.
For me it's the 90s - Manchester, rave scene, grunge, rock, trip hop, britpop, electronic, trance etc - so much variety, and most of my favourite albums are from that period. Things went a bit more stale in most genres in the '00s and now I've got to the point where I have little clue or interest in popular music, and there is good music being made, but finding it is more difficult because there is just so much of it out there!
For me it's the 90s - Manchester, rave scene, grunge, rock, trip hop, britpop, electronic, trance etc - so much variety, and most of my favourite albums are from that period. Things went a bit more stale in most genres in the '00s and now I've got to the point where I have little clue or interest in popular music, and there is good music being made, but finding it is more difficult because there is just so much of it out there!
Perhaps people should post their ages along with their 'favourite era' 
Most people are posting decades, but the 70s covers everything from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols!
Me, I'd say 1977 to 1984.
Of course, that's slap bang in my teens/early twenties, when music was really important as opposed to stuff like mortgages, kids, careers
As I get older, my taste broadens, but doesn't change much, although I do find myself feeling pangs of nostalgia when I hear disco these days, which I most certainly didn't tolerate in period!
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Most people are posting decades, but the 70s covers everything from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols!
Me, I'd say 1977 to 1984.
Of course, that's slap bang in my teens/early twenties, when music was really important as opposed to stuff like mortgages, kids, careers
As I get older, my taste broadens, but doesn't change much, although I do find myself feeling pangs of nostalgia when I hear disco these days, which I most certainly didn't tolerate in period!
M
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