Richard Wagner Opera

a.Richard Wagner was born on 1813, and die on 1883 in Venice, Italy. He was a german, composer, theatre director, and essayist. He was most famous for the western music in his operas which he wrote the poems which deliberately change the ordinary of the time people thought it was a "total art".


b.Richard Wagner has completely transformed the design of the opera from 1850, conceiving it not as entertainment but as a sacred drama. The Fairies (Die Feen), The Liebesverbot (Das Liebesverbot) and Rienzi operas are the youth. These works have nothing particularly remarkable and rarely played nowadays.With The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) and Tannhauser and Lohengrin, Wagner wrote his first great romantic operas. The composition of Tristan und Isolde , often considered his masterpiece. Next come The Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and The Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen). The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as Tetralogy is a series of four operas based on German and Scandinavian mythology. The last opera of Wagner's Parsifal, is a contemplative work based on the Christian legend of the Holy Grail.Through his works and his theoretical essays, Wagner exerted a great influence in the world of lyrical music. Combining drama and music to create the musical drama, he made himself the champion of a new conception of the opera, in which the orchestra plays a no less important than the singers.

1.Richard Wagner wrote romantic operas.
“The music assemble with verse to form, since Wagner, the poetry” Stephane Mallarme
He also wrote racist essay like Judaism in music, he wrote opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians.


2.Wagner was the author of his operas, very rare event in the history of the music scene.
In the Ring, each character (including the ring) is associated with a musical theme with ariations independently indicate psychological climate in which this character is changing is the famous "motto"


3. Throughout his life, in his conversations, his writings, Richard Wagner has stopped issuing opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians, of being harmful alien to Germany, he recommended their assimilation to the Germanic culture.
The first essay of Wagner, Judaism in Music, was published in 1850. He wrote in particular that the German people was "repulsed" by the Jews because "their appearance and behavior of foreign" Jews "are anomalies of nature" chatting "to their voices squeaky, squealing and buzzing» .

Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton

a)Jelly Roll Morton transform the ragtime on the Morton’s piano style. He remove the side of the rigid structure to make music more airy, more clear, paving the way for the improvisations of Earl Hines and the great pianists who would follow.
-In 1904, he became a itinerant pianist, working in many cities.
-From 1915 to 1920, he has lived in Los Angeles with the famous Spike Brothers.
-In 1922, he moved to Chicago, the new jazz center. He recording two performance with a sextet, Big Foot Ham and Muddy Water Blues.
-In 1926, Morton was recording with his Red Hot Peppers. Bands like Grandpa's Spells, Black Bottom Stomp, and The Pearls are the best examples of Morton's creative talents not only as a composer and arranger, but also as a pianist.
-Jelly Roll Morton wrote "King Porter Stomp," a song he dedicated to a pianist (Porter King) and will be covered by many bands of 30-40 years (Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman) and even by many Gil Evans later.

b)Jelly Roll Morton was very important because he create the Morton’s piano style, which later became the current jazz. He influence many jazzman ( ex. Earl Hines) He create the "transition" between ragtime and actual jazz.

1.People really liked Jelly Roll Morton, he was a great pianist and people liked the Morton’s piano style. He was famous because of the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues".
2.Now, most people who listen him are jazzman, are jazz fan. For some people, Jelly Roll Morton is an idol.
3.Jelly Roll Morton was very famous during his success, from 1923 to 1929, people say he was the musician of musicians. The jazz popularity was from 1920 to 1960.
4.The Morton style come from ragtime. The ragtime is very similar than jazz, it’s the same rhythm. This is ragtime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVBoWKnj4E and this is Morton piano style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTAqkIWRAg
5.Jelly Roll Morton was an appreciate black man, one of the first time a black man was accepted. But during the period when he was recording his interviews, Morton was seriously injured by knife wounds when a fight broke out at the Washington, D.C. establishment where he was playing. A nearby whites-only hospital refused to treat him, and he had to be transported to a lower-quality hospital further away.

Why stereotype and type come from?

Some people think don't do what everyone do it's be uncool. Some people also think they can be friend just with the people they loke like. They prefere stay with them because they know them. Social boundaries make stereotype (ex. language).
Exemple of stereotype: some people who like sport, or like homework or don't like school, it can be every thing.