Concert Halls and Opera Houses

This illustrated guide to 100 of the world's most important concert halls and opera houses will serve as a valuable guide for today's peripatetic performers and music lovers. The technical discussion is relegated to the appendices, so most of the book can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in musical performance.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
LEO L. BERANEK , PhD, is cofounder and President of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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This illustrated guide to 100 of the world's most important concert halls and opera houses examines their architecture and engineering and discusses their acoustical quality as judged by conductors and music critics. The descriptions and photographs will serve as a valuable guide for today's peripatetic performers and music lovers. With technical discussions relegated to appendices, the book can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in musical performance. The photographs (specially commissioned for this book) and architectural drawings (all to the same scale) together with modern acoustical data on each of the halls provide a rich and unmatched resource on the design of halls for presenting musical performances. Together with the technical appendices, the data and drawings will serve as an invaluable reference for architects and engineers involved in the design of spaces for the performance of music.

Contenu
One Music and Acoustics.- What Are Good Acoustics?.- Acoustics and the Performers.- Acoustics and Musical Periods.- Acoustics and Listeners.- Two The Language of Musical Acoustics.- Definitions and Explanations of Selected Terms.- Three One Hundred Concert Halls and Opera Houses.- United States.- Argentina.- Australia.- Austria.- Belgium.- Brazil.- Canada.- China.- Denmark.- England.- Finland.- France.- Germany.- Greece.- Hungary.- Ireland.- Israel.- Italy.- Japan.- Malaysia.- Mexico.- Netherlands.- New Zealand.- Norway.- Scotland.- Spain.- Sweden.- Switzerland.- Taiwan.- Venezuela.- Wales.- Four Acoustics of Concert Halls.- Rank-Orderings of Acoustical Quality of 58 Concert Halls Developed from Interviews and Questionnaires.- Reverberation Time: Musicians Preferences.- Architectural Basics.- Physical Measures of Acoustical Quality.- Further Architectural Considerations.- Architectural Design of Chamber Music Halls.- Concluding Remarks.- Five Acoustics of Opera Houses.- Questionnaire Rank-Orderings of Acoustical Quality of 21 Opera Houses.- Objective Measurements of the Acoustical Properties of 23 Opera Houses.- Orchestra Pits.- Appendix 1 Terminology Definitions, and Conversion Factors.- Appendix 2 Acoustical Data for Concert Halls & Opera Houses.- Appendix 3 Equations, Technical Data, and Sound Absorption.- Name Index.