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Buildings for music : the architect, the musician, and the listener from the seventeenth century to the present day / Michael Forsyth.
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Forsyth, Michael, 1951-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [©1985]
Description
371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
ML3849 .F74 1985
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Music and architecture
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Music
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Acoustics and physics
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Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. [337]-356.
Contents
Theme and variations
Patrons, pleasure gardens, and the early musick room
The development of the opera house
Music on the grand scale
Garnier versus Wagner
The shoe box and other symphony halls
Science and the auditorium
The hi-fi concert hall
Toward the future: a new context for music
Appendix: chronological table of concert halls and opera houses
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Select bibliography.
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ISBN
0262060892
9780262060899
0521268621
9780521268622
LCCN
83018770
OCLC
9945084
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