POLL: Favorite styles of music, ok stuff, dislike?

Favorite: all periods of jazz, far too much to list or discuss. Orchestral/Symphonic music of the classical,romantic and some modern classical music.
Next is some progressive rock, some rock and pop. I love Latin Jazz, bluegrass, "Good" reggae,soca,chutney soca (indian wife from Trinidad, mon)
I head for the door when I hear MTV/BET rap,modern r&b, modern "bad" reggae, angry trashy hard rock of the last decade or so
I'm into BEAUTY, aesthetics, composition, you know, the rules of design. NOT UGLY TRASHY GARBAGE

Just out of school, my tastes ran to splashy,brassy stuff like Richard Strauss,Stravinsky,Ravel,and jazz with electonic instruments.

My tastes have evolved to classic and barouqe era classical and hard bop and swing Jazz. What's the common thread? Polyphony. I'm increasing attracted to the interplay of two or more horizontal lines played at the same time.

Many years ago took a class on Far East culture and the Prof. asked me to learn to play a few songs on the piano. At first the song/s were so strange/usual. After learning to play them, I felt the music that I was playing before the class was so plain and boring! Strange how we get accustomed to things...I'll listen to just about anything but I'm not too keen on a few types. A healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to everyone. Bill

Nice Poll Elizabeth. I've read your stuff on this and other forums for a while now. The insights your tastes reveal are in your post too. Here's where I fall on the music listening scale these days:

MOST LISTENING -- Female vocalists -- some Jazz some heavier variant jazz and pop presenations (Sehmeika Copeland, Mary Stallings, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, Holly Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Susan Werner etc.)

SOMTIME LISTENING -- Classic Rock though not Heavy Metal. Queen is about as lound and heavy as it drifts. Lots of old (antique) stuff -- CSN&Y, Beatles, Allman Brothers, occasional bouts with Soutside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Joplin, a new Byrds SACD that I just got, some VERY old Jeffereson Airplane on the odd occasion.

CAN'T DEAL WITH MUSIC -- Let me count the volumes -- never got to deep Indie music but I won't run out of the room, Headbanger stuff will make me run though, Bad country music (there's some good stuff out there and I neglected to put Cowboy Junkies on a preferred list too) and heavily classical won't keep me in my chair either. Baroque (Bach particularly will rivet me on the odd occasion but not with frequency).

Lately I've been listening to the same few songs off the same couple of albums while I auditon cables and equipement in a re-build of my system. Can't wait til its over and I can listen to some other stuff I haven't heard in a while.

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For pragmatist: you might try an opera that I find the group singing together to be fabulous:
In Rossini's "Barber of Seville".. a group aria is exquisite: the scene when the troops come to arrest the Don, but can't... The vocal interplay is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! You'll love it.