1 online resource (xi, 437 pages) : illustrations, music
Contents
A personal perspective -- Introduction to aural architecture -- Auditory spatial awareness -- Aural spaces from prehistory to the present -- Aural arts and musical spaces -- Inventing virtual spaces for music -- Scientific perspectives on spatial acoustics -- Spatial innovators and their private agendas -- Auditory spatial awareness as evolutionary artifact
Summary
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater
Analysis
Electronic books
ARTS/Music & Sound Studies
ARCHITECTURE/General
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-404) and index