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Acoustics of opera houses: A cultural heritage

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999
An important part of contemporary Italian musical culture has developed inside historical opera houses. An outstanding opera repertory was especially conceived to match these places, both from the architectural and the acoustical points of view.
FAUSTI, Patrizio   +2 more
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Architectural Acoustics: The Cultural Heritage of Mediterranean Theatres

open access: yes, 2011
The acoustics of Opera houses and theatres characterise many different architectural historical buildings in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin. The acoustics of historical rooms, as baroque theatres and renaissance concert halls, is nowadays considered as the most important physical aspect in the cultural heritage of theatres.
TRONCHIN, LAMBERTO, TARABUSI, VALERIO
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Turning a Deaf Ear: Acoustic Value in the Assessment of Heritage Landscapes

open access: yesLandscape Research, 2011
Abstract Aesthetic value is one of the fundamental criteria used to determine the cultural heritage significance of important places. In Australia, however, cultural heritage has had only a limited engagement with theories on aesthetics, and as a result, no practical methodology has been developed to identify, describe and assess the acoustic dimension
O'Connor, Penelope, Penny O'connor
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Immersive Acoustics in Cultural Heritage Applications

open access: yes
This chapter embarks on a comprehensive exploration of immersive acoustics within the cultural heritage domain, a rapidly emerging field bridging technological innovation with historical preservation.
Harvey, Carlo   +4 more
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Sound Archaeology: A Study of the Acoustics of Three World Heritage Sites, Spanish Prehistoric Painted Caves, Stonehenge, and Paphos Theatre

open access: yesAcoustics, 2019
This paper explores the acoustics of three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: five caves in Spain that feature prehistoric paintings that are up to 40,000 years old; Stonehenge stone circle in England, which is over 4000 years old; and Paphos Theatre in Cyprus,
Rupert Till
exaly   +2 more sources

Geometrical Acoustics in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Promotion: Digitalization of the Acoustic Characteristics

2023
In 2003, UNESCO, with the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), recognized the acoustic characteristics of a cultural heritage building as qualities to be safeguarded. After this milestone, multiple researchers have investigated methods and tools to evaluate, understand, characterize and store the acoustic intangible ...
Sergio Montelpare   +4 more
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Modulations of Amplitude in Mobile Acoustical Heritage

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013
Nowadays, cultural heritage has been preserved digitally more than physically. However, most of the research works have been focusing more on preservation of video elements even though preservation of audio is equally important. In this paper, the possibilities of generating different sounds in an acoustical heritage through the modulations of sound ...
Chen Kim Lim   +2 more
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Acoustical heritage for virtual tourism on mobile platform

Proceeding of the International Conference on e-Education, Entertainment and e-Management, 2011
Virtual environments have commonly been used for the dissemination, education and public awareness of cultural heritage. However, interactive virtual environments have yet to be fully utilised as a tool to promote acoustical heritage in virtual tourism using mobile device.
null Lim Chen Kim   +2 more
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Excellence of acoustics in India—Its heritage and recent research

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021
Acoustics research and its applications have been an age-old tradition in India. In ancient times it has marvelous examples of achievement particularly in the areas of production of sounds, vocal recitations, musical instruments and in architectural acoustics.
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Airborne acoustic characterisation of cultural heritage paintings: A preliminary study

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021
In order to assess the health of cultural heritage paintings, for example prior to their restoration, visual inspections as well as techniques such as X-ray imaging are commonly used. Non-contact acoustic methods could become another exploration modality thanks to their non-destructive character and the fact that they are expected to be more sensitive ...
Victor Takahashi   +3 more
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