Sound, music and architecture / edited by Roberto Illiano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Illiano, Roberto, editor.

Series:

Music, science & technology ; v. 7.

Music, science & technology ; volume 7

Language:

English

Italian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Music and architecture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 410 pages 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2024]

Language Note:

Contributions in English, Italian, and Spanish; abstracts in English.

Summary:

"This book traces the relationship between sound, music and architecture from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The first part of this volume deals with the physical relationship between music and architecture, focussing on the intersection between rite, sound and architecture in ecclesiastical spaces such as the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, the churches of medieval Sicily, the liturgical spaces of 15th-17th-century France and the Roman churches in the Baroque era. A substantial article by Richard Bösel presents a comprehensive panorama of music rooms and concert halls, starting from the archetypes conceived in the Early Modern Age and concluding with their present-day configurations. The last article of this section is dedicated to the Festspielhaus located in Hellerau (Dresden), based on the documentary sources and the writing of the protagonists, in particular Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and Adolphe Appia. The theme continues in the second part of the book with the examination of the historical relationship between architecture and acoustic knowledge in the age of modernity. Moreover, the following chapter explores the architectural idea of designing for musical tone as it found expression in the early decades of the twentieth century. The last two articles of this section explore Leo Beranek's research regarding the quality of musical spaces in the history of modern science, and the experimentations of the architect Bernard Leitner with his Soundcube. The last part of the book will focus on Music as an 'art of space', exploring installations and musical experimentations by composers such as Xenakis, Jean-Luc Hervé and John Chowning" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Physical Relationship between Music and Architecture. The Phantom of Notre-Dame: Music, Architecture, Acoustics, and the Origins of the Notre-Dame Polyphony / Vasco Zara ; Aural Architecture in Medieval Sicily: Architecture, Music and Acoustics of Siculo-Norman Churches / Thomas Dittelbach, Tobias Christian Weißmann ; Location of Acoustic Pots in the Liturgical Space: Functional, Symbolic, Musical and Acoustic Interpretation / Jean-Christopèhe Valière, Bénédicte Bertholon ; P'rogetti per cupole sonore. Strutture architettoniche e articolazione direzionale della musica liturgica negli spazi delle chiese barocche romane / Galliano Ciliberti ; 'Soundful Venues': Music Rooms, Concert Halls, and More / Richard Bösel ; Hellerau, espacio de encuentros: Adolphe Appia y Émile Jaques-Dalcroze / Guillem Aloy-Bibiloni, Antoni Ramon Graells, Laia Montserrat-Cortázar

Sound Architecture. Sound Architecture: Music, Speech, and the Science of Acoustics in the Age of Modernity / Edward J. Gillin, Fanny Gribensky ; "...Mysterious changes in molecular structure...": Pragmatics, Poetics and Designing for Musical Tone / Fiona Smyth ; Confidential Rankings: The Rating of Experience, and Why the List of the Best Concert Halls Was Kept a Secret / Sabine von Fischer ; Architecture without Walls: Bernhard Leitner's Soundcube / Sven Sterken

Music as an Art of Space. Xenakis's Polytopes and the Diatope / Makis Solomos ; Ritmo: medida del tiempo, medida del mundo. Música y arquitectura, una colaboración entre Iannis Xenakis y Le Corbusier / Marta Llorente ; Building Bio-Spaces through Music: Metamorphosis and Illusionary Space in Germination by Jean-Luc Hervé / Candida Felici ; A History of the First Computer Sound Spatialisation System: John Chowning's Investigations at Stanford University (1962-1972) / Laura Zattra, François-Xavier Féron

Abstracts and Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliograohical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503611839

2503611834

OCLC:

1427941069

Publisher Number:

90100420644