Objective and subjective evaluations of twenty-three opera houses in Europe, Japan, and the Americas

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 368-383

  Hidaka, Takayuki ^a   Beranek, Leo L ^b  

^a TAKENAKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BUILDING; EUROPE; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; UNITED STATES; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033989319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428309     Document Type: Article

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