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  Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (Hardback) By (author) Leo L. Beranek

  

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  Short Description for Concert Halls and Opera HousesA guide to 100 of the world's most important concert halls and opera houses. It examines their architecture and engineering and discusses their acoustical quality as judged by conductors and music critics. It is suitable for peripatetic performers and music lovers, and for those who are interested in musical performance.
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  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Published: 01 January 2004
  • Format: Hardback 688 pages
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  • Categories: Theory Of Architecture | Public Buildings: Civic, Commercial, Industrial, Etc | Concert Halls, Arenas, Stadia | Physics | Wave Mechanics (vibration & Acoustics) | Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building | Building Construction & Materials | Heating, Lighting, Ventilation | Other Technologies & Applied Sciences | Acoustic & Sound Engineering
  • ISBN 13: 9780387955247 ISBN 10: 0387955240
  • Sales rank: 485,602

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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.