Concert Halls and Opera Houses

Concert Halls and Opera Houses
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9780387216362
ISBN-13 : 0387216367
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Book Synopsis Concert Halls and Opera Houses by : Leo Beranek

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.


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