Editing Don Giovanni (section)

===Scoring===
The score calls for double [[woodwinds]], two [[Natural horn|horns]], two [[trumpet]]s, three [[trombone]]s (alto, tenor, bass), [[timpani]], [[basso continuo]] for the [[recitative]]s, and the usual [[string section]]. The composer also specified occasional special musical effects. For the ballroom scene at the end of the first act, Mozart calls for two onstage ensembles to play separate dance music in synchronization with the pit orchestra, each of the three groups playing in its own [[Metre (music)|metre]] (a 3/4 [[minuet]], a 2/4 contradanse and a fast 3/8 peasant dance), accompanying the dancing of the principal characters. In act 2, Giovanni is seen to play the [[mandolin]], accompanied by [[pizzicato]] strings. In the same act, two of the [[Commander (order)|Commendatore]]'s interventions ("{{lang|it|Di rider finirai pria dell'aurora|italic=no}}" and "{{lang|it|Ribaldo, audace, lascia a' morti la pace|italic=no}}") are accompanied by a wind chorale of oboes, clarinets, [[bassoon]]s, and trombones (with cellos and basses playing from the string section).