来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：聆听音乐第17集第17集》

Supposing they took the sound track

假如把这些恐怖电影的
out of these horror films.

声音关掉
You wouldn't be frightened at all.

你根本就不会被吓到
It's--I think we have a much more visceral response to sound

我想相对于视觉画面
than we do to visual images

我们对声音更能产生一种本能反应
and that's what's going on globally in opera,

这就是歌剧能风靡世界的原因
and opera, as you know, is made up of an introductory overture

一部歌剧的开端首先是一首序曲
and then these numbers such as recitatives

然后是数段音乐比如宣叙调
where the composer tells you what's going on.

在这部分作曲家会告诉你发生了什么事
You remember the Bugs Bunny--

你们记得兔八哥吗
or I guess it's Warner Brothers cartoon:

好像是华纳兄弟的一部卡通
"Be very quiet.

"现在保持安静