Aida - Shores of the Nile - Night - Georg Solti - Cricket chirping

Aida. Act III. Introduction.

Shores of the Nile. - Granite rocks overgrown with palm-trees. On the summit of the rocks, a temple dedicated to Isis, half hidden in foliage. Night; stars and a bright moon.

Andante mosso. Chorus (in the temple).

Opera di Roma - conductor Georg Solti (1962)

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CRICKET CHIRPING

"Only the male crickets chirp. A large vein running along the bottom of each wing has 'teeth', much like a comb does. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing. As he does this, the cricket also holds the wings up and open, so that the wing membranes can act as acoustical sails. It is a popular myth that the cricket chirps by rubbing its legs together.

There are four types of cricket song: The calling song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet song. An aggressive song is triggered by chemoreceptors on the antennae that detect the near presence of another male cricket and a copulatory song is produced for a brief period after successful deposition of sperm on the female's eggs.

Crickets chirp at different rates depending on their species and the temperature of their environment. Most species chirp at higher rates the higher the temperature is (approximately 62 chirps a minute at 13°C in one common species; each species has its own rate). The relationship between temperature and the rate of chirping is known as Dolbear's Law. Using this law it is possible to calculate the temperature in Fahrenheit by adding 40 to the number of chirps produced in 14 seconds by the snowy tree cricket common in the United States."
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_(insect)

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