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oapen-20.500.12657-584772023-02-01T09:33:16Z Symphonic Concert Life and Concert Venues in Tokyo 1868–1945 Büttner, Clemens Architecture History Music bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music In this survey, the development of the public concert life in Tokyo from the beginning of the Meiji Era in 1868 to the end of the Second World War is examined, based on an analysis of performance venues for symphonic concerts. It will be shown that the analysis of the architectural and acoustic conditions of performance and reception of symphonic music contribute to the understanding of the social and cultural conditions of the time. The specific preconditions as well as apparent references to European or American prototypes regarding the performance venues will be identified. This survey intends to document all venues that have been used for symphonic concerts before 1945 in Tokyo, regarding their form, size, capacity and acoustics. For the investigation of the acoustic conditions, a set of room acoustic parameters are employed. Since most of the relevant rooms do not exist anymore in their original condition, CAD models are generated as input for a room acoustics simulation software to derive the room acoustic parameters for the unoccupied and the occupied cases. The size of the orchestras are investigated based on historical sources to describe the relationship of sound source, enclosure and audience. 2022-09-21T05:32:13Z 2022-09-21T05:32:13Z 2022 book 9783832552701 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58477 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Logos Verlag Berlin Logos Verlag Berlin 10.30819/5270 10.30819/5270 1059eef5-b798-421c-b07f-c6a304d3aec8 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783832552701 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Logos Verlag Berlin Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In this survey, the development of the public concert life in Tokyo from the beginning of the Meiji Era in 1868 to the end of the Second World War is examined, based on an analysis of performance venues for symphonic concerts. It will be shown that the analysis of the architectural and acoustic conditions of performance and reception of symphonic music contribute to the understanding of the social and cultural conditions of the time. The specific preconditions as well as apparent references to European or American prototypes regarding the performance venues will be identified. This survey intends to document all venues that have been used for symphonic concerts before 1945 in Tokyo, regarding their form, size, capacity and acoustics. For the investigation of the acoustic conditions, a set of room acoustic parameters are employed. Since most of the relevant rooms do not exist anymore in their original condition, CAD models are generated as input for a room acoustics simulation software to derive the room acoustic parameters for the unoccupied and the occupied cases. The size of the orchestras are investigated based on historical sources to describe the relationship of sound source, enclosure and audience.
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