| Zugriffsnummer | 45702 |
| Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Peer Review | unbekannt |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | Directivity of the bowed stringed instruments and its effect on orchestral sound in concert halls |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Meyer, Jürgen; 5.23, Musikalische Akustik, PTB-Braunschweig
|
| Quelle/Jahr | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: 51 (1972), 6, 1994 - 2009 |
| ISSN | 0001-4966 (PRINT) ; 1520-8524 (ONLINE) |
| DOI | |
| Verlag | Melville, NY: AIP |
| Zusammenfassung | The directional characteristics of sound radiation were investigated for violins, violas, cellos, and contrabasses. Each instrument group has a nondirectional characteristic in its lowest frequency range except the contrabass. At higher frequencies, there are regions of preferred radiation, which change their direction and anglewidth with frequency. These results suggest that different seating arrangements for the strings would be optimum for different concert halls and different styles of musical compositions. The European seating system is optimum for the radiation of the cellos; it has the advantage that the sound character of the first and second violins may be distinguished by the audience, but the sound of the second violins has no brilliance. The American system makes the second violins sound as good as the first violins, but it is difficult to distinguish both groups in contrapuntal passages of classical symphonies. The sound of the cellos is poor and without clarity. The validity of these findings is confirmed by measurements in concert halls, and they have been used for guidance in changing the seating arrangement of an orchestra to improve the instrumental balance with successful results. |
