Music, acoustics & architecture

Wiley

1962

586 p.

Musical acoustics: science or myth? -- Sounds and listeners -- Acoustics and music -- Subjective attributes of musical-acoustic quality -- Interviews and measurements -- The fifty-four halls -- Size, use, and age -- Categories of acoustical quality and a numerical rating system -- Acoustical intimacy and liveness -- Warmth, loudness, clarity, and brilliance -- Diffusion, balance and blend, ensemble, attack, and texture -- Echo, noise, distortion, and non-uniformity -- Validation of the numerical rating scale -- Some considerations in the design of concert all and opera houses -- Philharmonic Hall, The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts -- Appendixes: Audience and seat absorption in large halls -- Collected tables of acoustical and dimensional data -- Terminology and conversion factors.

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