What if?

[Insecuritykiller]

Besides we are both white males. So by your idea of things we should both kill ourselves.

[|Y|]

You are not worth actually formulating a real response to.

[Zazaban]

You are not worth actually formulating a real response to.

Nope. Which is why mine will be unrelated shit about Wagner.

[Zazaban]

Besides we are both white males. So by your idea of things we should both kill ourselves.

Wagner's music dramas are his primary artistic legacy. These can be divided chronologically into three periods.

Wagner's early stage began at age 19 with his first attempt at an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), which Wagner abandoned at an early stage of composition in 1832. Wagner's three completed early-stage operas are Die Feen (The Fairies), Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), and Rienzi. Their compositional style was conventional, and did not exhibit the innovations that marked Wagner's place in musical history. Later in life, Wagner said that he did not consider these immature works to be part of his oeuvre; he was irritated by the ongoing popularity of Rienzi during his lifetime. These works are seldom performed, though the overture to Rienzi has become a concert piece.

Wagner's middle stage output is considered to be of remarkably higher quality, and begins to show the deepening of his powers as a dramatist and composer. This period began with Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), followed by Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. These works are widely performed today.

Wagner's late stage operas are his masterpieces that advanced the art of opera. Some are of the opinion that Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult) is Wagner's greatest single opera. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is Wagner's only comedy still in the repertoire (his early Das Liebesverbot is forgotten) and one of the lengthiest operas still performed. Der Ring des Nibelungen, commonly referred to as the Ring cycle, is a set of four operas based loosely on figures and elements of Teutonic myth, particularly from later period Norse mythology. Taking 26 years to complete, and requiring roughly 15 hours to perform, the Ring cycle has been called the most ambitious musical work ever composed.

Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, which was written especially for the acoustics of Wagner's Festspielhaus in Bayreuth and which is described in the score as a "Bühnenweihfestspiel" (festival play for the consecration of the stage), is a contemplative work based on the Christian legend of the Holy Grail.

Wagner drew largely from Northern European mythology and legend, notably Icelandic sources such as the Poetic Edda, the Volsunga Saga and the German Nibelungenlied. Through his operas and theoretical essays, Wagner exerted a strong influence on the operatic medium. He was an advocate of a new form of opera which he called "music drama", in which all the musical and dramatic elements were fused together. Unlike other opera composers, who generally left the task of writing the libretto (the text and lyrics) to others, Wagner wrote his own libretti, which he referred to as "poems". Further, Wagner developed a compositional style in which the orchestra's role is equal to that of the singers. The orchestra's dramatic role includes its performance of the leitmotifs, musical themes that announce specific characters, locales, and plot elements; their complex interleaving and evolution illuminates the progression of the drama.

Wagner's musical style is often considered the epitome of classical music's Romantic period, due to its unprecedented exploration of emotional expression. He introduced new ideas in harmony and musical form, including extreme chromaticism. In Tristan und Isolde, he explored the limits of the traditional tonal system that gave keys and chords their identity, pointing the way to atonality in the 20th century. Some music historians date the beginning of modern classical music to the first notes of Tristan, the so-called Tristan chord.

[AndyMalroes]

I suggest you go take a trip to africa, where there are no white people.

This shit's hilarious! Ever heard of South Africa?

[Insecuritykiller]

south africa doesn't count. That place doesn't even exist.

[Zazaban]

south africa doesn't count. That place doesn't even exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites_in_Zimbabwe

[Insecuritykiller]

Ok well white people in africa suck anyway. everyone hates them.

[AndyMalroes]

Everyone hates damn whities full stop.

[Insecuritykiller]

What do you think everyone watchs on the tv?

HOLLYWOOD!

In asia, chinese people like to watch hollywood movies.

Do you understand now?

[FirePirate]

Hollywood is preety big, no doubt. But doesn`t beat or come close to the impact of Bollywood in India nor French movies in France, or french colonies around the world.

[Insecuritykiller]

I'm pretty sure hollywood is pretty popular world wide. Even in india.