Chucky?
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay.
There's one I don't know about.
But, Shining, something like that, I don't know.
Think of something.
I don't get scared when watching a movie until what happens?
I see some really scary visual.
Come on.
What scares you in movies.
Supposing they took the sound, the sound track out of these horror films.
You wouldn't be frightened at all.
I think we have a much more visceral response to sound than we do to
visual images.
And that's what's going on globally in opera.
And opera, as you know, is made up of an introductory overture, and then these
numbers, such as recitatives, where the composer tells you what's going on.
You remember the Bugs Bunny, or I guess it's Warner Brothers cartoon,
[SOUND] be very quiet, I am hunting rabbit, [SOUND] that kind of thing?
So that's a recitative, what's going on.
Then somebody will come out and sing about how they felt about what just happened.
That's what goes on in an aria.
And arias will tend to repeat words and on and on it goes to give a sense of emotion.
And there are choruses involved in it from time to time too.
Now as we mentioned Mozart wrote three wonderful operas two of them
by Labredus Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Read in your textbook there's a box on Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Absolutely fascinating life far more fascinating than fiction could ever
make it.
But we're going to talk now about Don Giovanni.
What music is this?
Linda, could we have the next piece of music?
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