Concert Halls And Opera Houses

Author : Leo Beranek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387216367
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concert Halls and Opera Houses written by Leo Beranek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Victoria Newhouse
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580932819
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Site and Sound written by Victoria Newhouse and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or the other way around? Heavily illustrated throughout—with historic images, spectular color photographs, detailed drawings—this volume is an informed and enjoyable presentation of a building type that is at the heart of cities small and large. Newhouse starts with a survey of venues from ancient Greek and Roman times and progresses to contemporary works around the world. She singles out Lincoln Center in particular for its long history and its transitions and remodelings over the years. Two major chapters cover the present: one focuses on recent work in the West, including the National Opera House of Norway in Oslo by Snøhetta (2008), the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas (2005), and many more; the second examines the boom in concert halls in China. A final chapter looks at projects that are currently planned and the future of an architecture for music.

Author : Leo Leroy Beranek
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concert and Opera Halls written by Leo Leroy Beranek and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 1996 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide examines the acoustical quality of some of the world's most important concert and opera halls and reveals how composers and musicians adapt their art to complement the acoustics of their surroundings.

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858942797
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Architecture written by Michael Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an age of fast-paced mass media and an enormous choice of home entertainment, it comes as a surprise to discover just how much creative energy and money is being directed towards new space for live performance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Performing Architecture explores fifty of the world's finest twenty-first-century venues for live performance, as well as earlier buildings that have been recently refurbished or transformed, and shows that the buildings are as much the stars as those performing within them."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Yasuhisa Toyota
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030424502
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concert Halls by Nagata Acoustics written by Yasuhisa Toyota and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning and data rich text catalogs the design of 32 concert halls by world-renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and his team at Nagata Acoustics, the firm behind the celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and numerous others. Alongside architectural drawings and photographs, commentary on the design process and challenges of each hall provides insight for the dedicated listener to appreciate a wide range of internationally beloved concert venues. Summarized acoustical and architectural data for each of the halls will provide valuable reference information to architects and acousticians alike. Following the project anthology is an overview of the history, development, and acoustical features of vineyard- and surround-style concert halls. A broader discussion of design philosophy reveals the methods by which Toyota has guided architects to create world renowned halls. These technical and general discussions give architects the foundation to design for the performing arts, and provide audiences a new insight and perspective to consider the next time they attend a concert.

Author : Michael Forsyth
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521268622
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings for Music written by Michael Forsyth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on how musical taste and style affected architecture and acoustics influenced musical composition.

Author : David Staples
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351052160
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Theatres 1950–2020 written by David Staples and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners.

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857286838
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthem Guide to the Opera, Concert Halls and Classical Music Venues of Europe written by and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J Christopher Jaffe
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393732559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acoustics of Performance Halls written by J Christopher Jaffe and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed acoustician presents a proven methodology for designing successful venues for concert performance in a variety of building types. Of all the problems posed by the art and science of acoustics, the design of concert halls is the most mysterious. Listeners, from music lovers to musicians, hear performances in halls of comparable dimensions and find differences in the quality of their listening experiences. Why do so many concert halls fail to live up to expectations? In The Acoustics of Performance Halls J. Christopher Jaffe, an acclaimed acoustician known for his innovative design concepts, describes the common misconceptions about what makes a successful classical concert space, explains that sound reflections rather than geometry are the key to developing an outstanding hall, and shows how a series of simple principles related to how humans perceive musical quality can provide the ideal environment for classical music performances. Jaffe presents a proven methodology for designing successful venues for symphonic performance in a variety of building types, including concert halls, music pavilions, multiuse theaters, and amphitheaters, using a fact-based approach that relies on matching subjective values to quantitative measurements, an awareness of a community’s musical memory, and extensive practical experience working with orchestras. Case studies illustrate the acoustic design of facilities designed for the presentation of symphonic music as well as those that were designed for other activities but through necessity or innovation are used for this purpose. An invaluable resource as a large-scale troubleshooting manual, this book should be required reading not only for acousticians but also for concert administrators, concert division directors, and operations managers, as well as theater consultants, architectural firms, and construction companies.

Author : David Leventi
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862083973
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera written by David Leventi and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2015 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, photographer David Leventi records the interiors of more than 40 opera houses spanning four centuries and four continents