Concert Halls and Opera Houses

Author: Leo Beranek
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1441930388

Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture

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. Download Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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