A study of ancient Greek and Roman theater acoustics

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-136

  Vassilantonopoulos, Stamatis L ^a   Mourjopoulos, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; THEATERS (LEGITIMATE);

COMPUTER AIDED SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0037285156     PISSN: 14367947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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