Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day - Hardcover

Forsyth, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521268621 ISBN 13: 9780521268622

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Synopsis

This book establishes how musical taste and style affected architecture, and how in turn buildings and their acoustics influenced musical composition. Michael Forsyth examines the emergence of the purpose-built music room; the evolution of the opera house; the development of Romantic music related to the great nineteenth-century concert halls and opera houses; and the growth of acoustic science. The evolution of the twentieth-century concert hall is paralleled with the emergence of modern music, recording techniques and the influence of cinema design. Finally, present and future trends in music and acoustics are seen beside the growth of electronics and the adjustable auditorium. Buildings for Music draws together architecture, acoustics and musical sociology and presents them in a scholarly but very readable text, beautifully illustrated with contemporary plans, paintings, prints and photographs.

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Book Description

This book establishes how musical taste and style affected architecture, and how in turn buildings and their acoustics influenced musical composition. Buildings for Music draws together architecture, acoustics and musical sociology and presents them in a scholarly but very readable text, beautifully illustrated with contemporary plans, paintings, prints and photographs.

About the Author

Michael Forsyth teaches and researches architecture at the University of Bristol. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on concert hall acoustics, and is a frequent contributor to the Architects' Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521268621
• ISBN 13: 9780521268622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 397