Auditorium acoustics and architectural design / Michael Barron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barron, Michael, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural acoustics.

Music-halls--Great Britain.

Music-halls.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Spon Press/Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Preface to the first edition; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Sound and rooms; 3 Acoustics for the symphony concert hall; 4 The development of the concert hall; 5 British concert halls and conclusions for concert hall acoustics; 6 Chamber music and recital halls; 7 Acoustics for speech; 8 Theatre acoustics; 9 Acoustics for opera; 10 Acoustics for multi-purpose use; 11 Multi-purpose halls in Britain; 12 The art and science of acoustics; Appendix A: Sound reflection and reverberation calculation; Appendix B: Objective measures for music auditoria

Appendix C: Further objective results in concert hallsAppendix D: Objective measures for speech auditoria; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781135219253

1135219257

9781135219260

1135219265

9781282318083

128231808X

9780203874226

0203874226

OCLC:

466909636