Auditorium acoustics and architectural design

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Auditorium acoustics and architectural design

Michael Barron

E & FN Spon, 1993

1st ed

  • : us
  • : uk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

As performance art forms have developed over the centuries, so too have the specialized buildings to house them. Functionally and acoustically, the special properties of a particular room type enhance the quality of a performance, raising artistic and production standards. Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics. Michael Barron explores these characteristics in his comprehensive book Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design . As he explains in his introduction "As with all buildings, structural needs can build freedom and architectural style is a balance between respect for precedents and current fashion. But for auditoria, there are the additional constraints in planning for good visual conditions and sightlines, of meeting certain social demands in regard to layout of seating and not least providing good acoustic conditions". This book is an important resource for architects, engineers and auditorium technicians.

目次

  • Part 1 Sound and rooms: the essence of sound waves
  • the nature of music and speech sounds
  • sound propagation
  • sound in rooms
  • reflections and the ear
  • sound propagation in detail
  • acoustic defects
  • sound level distribution. Part 2 Acoustics for the symphony concert hall: the subjective dimension
  • objective descriptions
  • size, volume and form
  • early reflection design
  • balconies and other modulations
  • design for the performers, A.C.Gade
  • acoustic modelling
  • objective characteristics. Part 3 The development of the concert hall: early developments
  • the classical rectangular concert hall
  • the directed sound hall
  • the fan-shaped hall
  • the synthesis in British post-war halls
  • the diffuse solution
  • a subdivided acoustic space?
  • the terraced concert hall
  • the lateral directed reflection sequence hall
  • concert hall design in the 80s. Part 4 12 British concert halls and concert hall acoustics: Royal Albert Hall, London
  • Usher Hall, Edinburgh
  • Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
  • Town Hall, Watford
  • Royal Festival Hall, London
  • Colston Hall, Bristol
  • Free Trade Hall, Manchester
  • Fairfield Hall, Croydon
  • Wessex Hall, Poole
  • Barbican Concert Hall, London
  • St. David's Hall, Cardiff
  • Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
  • acoustical design of concert halls in subjective and objective terms
  • solution of the large concert hall problem. Part 5 Chamber music and recital halls: reverberation time and loudness
  • room form for chamber music
  • Wigmore Hall, London
  • Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  • The Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk
  • Faculty of Music Auditorium, Cambridge
  • conclusions. Part 16 Acoustics for speech: the nature of speech
  • speech in the open air
  • speech in rooms
  • is there an optimum profile for theatre design?
  • design for speech in theatres
  • the early reflection ratio
  • acoustic measurement of theatres. Part 7 Theatre acoustics: classical Greek and Roman theatre
  • Elizabethan theatre in London
  • the development of the proscenium theatre
  • the acoustics of six proscenium theatres
  • the open stage
  • theatre in the round. Part 8 Acoustics for opera: the elements of opera house design: stage and pit design
  • opera house form and acoustics
  • British opera houses
  • objective behaviour in opera houses. Part 9 Acoustics for multi-purpose use: variable acoustic elements
  • the totally variable acoustic space
  • meeting the requirements of both speech and music
  • variable acoustics through electronics
  • the "Proscenium Concert Hall". Part 10 Multi-purpose halls in Britain: Wembley Conference Centre
  • Central Hall, University of York
  • Arts Centre Hall, University of Warwick
  • Assembly Rooms, Derby
  • The Hexagon, Reading
  • Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
  • Theatre Royal, Plymouth
  • Derngate Centre, Northampton. Part 11 The art and science of acoustics.

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