Concert Halls And Opera Houses
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| Author | : Leo Beranek |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 662 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0387216367 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-04-10 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1580932819 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 662 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
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.
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| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Europe |
| ISBN | : 0857286838 |
| Author | : Yasuhisa Toyota |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2021-02-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3030424502 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780521268622 |
The book focuses on how musical taste and style affected architecture and acoustics influenced musical composition.
| Author | : David Staples |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 926 |
| Release | : 2021-04-28 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1351052160 |
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.
| Author | : Michael Hammond |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
| ISBN | : 9781858942797 |
"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 | : Michael Barron |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 863 |
| Release | : 2009-09-28 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1135219257 |
Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics. With new contemporary case-studies, this updated book explores these characteristics as an important resource for architects, engineers and auditorium technicians. Supported by over 40 detailed case studies and architectural drawings of 75 auditoria at a scale of 1:500, the survey of each auditorium type is completed with a discussion of current best practice to achieve optimum acoustics.
| Author | : Raf Orlowski |
| Publisher | : The Crowood Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2021-06-28 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 178500879X |
It was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the physicist Wallace Clement Sabine developed his theory of reverberation, which has remained fundamental to architectural acoustics to this day, and has subsequently been applied to many building types, especially those for the performing arts. Yet the practice of architectural acoustics goes back much further with the impressive designs of the Greeks proving highly influential. This comprehensive book explores the development of acoustics in architectural design from the theatres of Classical Greece, through the early development of opera houses, concert halls and theatres, to the research work of Sabine and his successors and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century buildings. Topics covered include: the fundamentals of acoustics; the influential legacy of the Greeks and Romans; the evolving design of opera houses, theatres and concert halls and, finally, the acoustics of schools, music schools and recital halls.
