The acoustics of performance halls : spaces for music from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl /
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Co.,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- A design revolution
- Breaking away
- Where music, acoustics, and architecture meet
- The orchestra platform-the last frontier
- Designing the "shoebox" concert hall
- Musical memory
- Case study : Kennedy Center Concert Hall
- Recital halls
- Case study : Zankel Hall
- New surround style
- Multipurpose performance halls
- Case study : Severance Hall
- Symphonic summer music pavilions
- Case study : Blossom Music Center
- Amphitheaters and mobile symphony stages
- Concert hall shapers
- Case study : Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall
- Cab forward
- Electronic architecture
- Case study : the Concord Pavilion
- Art and architecture : will the twain meet?