These are favorite music genres. You might want to try to look them up if you have time. 🙂

(Many say we have to live our lives to the fullest. Consuming everything music and art can give is one of the ways I fulfill that ostensibly commonly agreed upon obligation.)

TOP TWO

>> ROMANTICISM – (late 18th century to early 19th century)

Fav composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin,

Ferencz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergej Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Franz Haydn, Aleksandr Mussorgskij, etc

Best Piece: Symphony 9 in D minor “Choral” — Ludwig van Beethoven

 >>THIRD STREAM – (coined by Gunther Schuller to describe the wedding of Jazz and Classical techniques)

Fav composers: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Dmitri Shostakovich, Eric Dolphy, George Gershwin, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Dave Brubeck, Modern Jazz Quartet, etc

Best Piece: The Black Saint and Sinner Lady — Charles Mingus

AMBIENT (Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Alio Die, etc)

ART ROCK (Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet, Robert Wyatt, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, etc)

BAROQUE (J.S. Bach, Georg Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Domenico Scarlatti, etc)

CLASSICAL AVANT GARDE (John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, Krysztof Penderecki, Pierre Boulez, Witold Lutoslaski, etc)

COLLAGE MUSIC (Negativland, Michael Gendrau, Vampire Rodents, Alvin Curran, John Oswald, etc)

DECADENTISM (Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Antonin Dvorak, Igor Stravinskij, etc)

EARLY ELECTRONIC (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Riley, Iannis Xenakis, David Tudor, Luigi Nono, etc)

FREE JAZZ (Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, etc)

INDIAN CLASSICAL (Ravi Shankar, Rag Ahiv Bhairav, Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Pran Nath, Zakir Hussain, etc)

MINIMALISM (ohn Adams, Glen Branca, Steve Reich, Michael Byron, Tony Conrad, etc)

MODAL JAZZ (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, George Russell, Bill Evans, etc)

MODERNIST CLASSICAL (Dmitri Shostakovich, Edgar Varese, Arnold Schoenberg, Goffredo Petrassi, Kurt Weill, etc)

MUSIQUE CONCRETE (Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Alvin Curran, Qubais Reed Ghazala, etc)

PSYCHEDELIA (Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Hash Jar Tempo, Parson Sounds, Red Krayola, etc)

WORLD MUSIC (Jon Hassell, Third Ear Band, Enya, Lucia Hwong, Stephen Micus, etc )

VOCAL MUSIC (Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Laurie Anderson, David Moss, Kristin Norderval, etc)