Which of these periods do you like the most? Let's hear those fans of Gregorian chant! Fat chance the Romantic era will win though....

certainly it will.

modern

i can't stand romantic, and i don't like much of what i have heard from the classical and baroque periods. i'd like to hear more medieval music though.

I had to go with the romantic period on this one. It brings in a fuller sound, plus I'm a big fan of the Russian nationalist composers.

Nice kick-off! By the way, the Romantic era is off to a fairly decent start...

Anyway, this was a hard choice for me, because my very favorite period is not actually a period, but is a transitional phase that is often called late-romanticism, or early post-romanticism. I love the music that falls between roughly 1870 and 1914 best of all. That falls partially in the "romantic" and partially in the "modern" periods. It includes such important composers as Mahler, Debussy, early Stravinski, Tchaikovski, Dvorak, the tone poems of Richard Strauss, and the symphonies of Brahms, among others.

Since that category wasn't available to me, I picked "romantic". Most of the music I love best from this transitional era has its roots in the romantic period.

Classical - Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn are more than enough to make this my favorite. Actually Beethoven would be more than enough. The others are just major cherries on top.
Romantic
Post-Romantic
Modern
Baroque - Johann Sebastian Bach is this era.

For me, it was a toss-up between Romantic and Modern...I'm still not sure if I made the right choice, but I went w/ Romantic just because in terms of general "sound" the music of this period appeals to me more than any other. Intellectually, I'd have to go w/ Modern...but ultimately, it depends on my mood.

Are you saying that only Modern is intellectual music?

That's Impressionism, isn't it? And late Romantic. I thought about periods like those, but decided to make the poll not too complicated. After 1800 it gets blurry anyway.

By the way, the one Baroque vote so far is mine. You can almost never go wrong on music from that era, whereas in other cases it always depends on the composer and usually even on which piece for me.
The main reason is of course that "God himself" (i.e. Bach) worked during this era.