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The study of architectural acoustics originated with Wallace Clement Sabine. In 1900, the Symphony Hall, Boston was the first concert hall in the world which was specially designed by Sabine according to scientific acoustic principles, based largely on reverberation time. Prior to Sabine, the creation of great sounding concert halls was more a matter of luck than good design. Now concert hall acoustics is a recognised specialised area of acoustics which straddles architecture, engineering and physics. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ... Architectural acoustics is the science of controlling quality of sound in buildings. ... Wallace Clement Sabine (June 13, 1868 - January 10, 1919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. ... Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts is widely considered to be one of the two or three finest concert halls in the world, alongside Amsterdams Concertgebouw and Viennas Grosser Musikvereinssaal. ...
Desirable acoustic properties of halls that sound pleasing to the ear can be measured and replicated by acoustic engineers.
Concert hall acoustics. Commercial site with information on concert hall acoustics with list of parameters from famous concert halls.
Engineering art. Engineering art: the science of concert hall acoustics. Detailed paper about concert hall acoustics with emphasis on the role of surface diffusers.
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concert Hall Acoustics"
In a concerthall, the important point to remember is that the volume of reflected sound should not be loud enough to be consciously heard, even when the tensions of the body have relaxed and the listener is hearing very loudly.
Anyone familiar with the acoustic of such a room will understand that reverberation should be treated as a basically undesirable element to be held to low limits, and not as a toy to be played with for various effects, as is often the case with reverberation devices in sound-reproduction.
A hall'sacoustic is "bright" when an unequal transmission of the frequency spectrum favors the higher frequencies, i.e., in traveling from the stage to the listener, the balance of the higher to the lower frequencies changes, the higher frequencies becoming louder in proportion to the lower frequencies.
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