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Author: Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780929650531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcoustics in the place for worship are examined from the perspectives of an architect, acoustician, musician, organ builder, theologian, and pastor.
Author: Mendel Kleiner
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1604270373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorship Space Acoustics is a unique guide to the design, construction, and use of religious facilities for optimum acoustics. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 discusses methods and techniques of room optimization – how the acoustics of large and small spaces are designed, implemented, and adjusted, and how acoustical privacy is attained; noise and its control as well as sound reinforcement and numerical and physical modeling techniques. Part 2 provides the architect, student, and lay-person a review of the characteristics of the religious services pertinent to various beliefs and how these are provided for in the acoustic design of spaces in synagogues, churches, and mosques.Key Features • Covers the design, construction, and use of religious facilities for optimum acoustics • Presents the historical background to existing practice, problems, and solutions, to deepen understanding for those involved in design, construction and use • Illustrates both the similarities and differences between facilities for different religious groups • Offers a unique reference for those who teach and study, both in architecture and in religious education
Author: Danielle Noe
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1616710624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pastoral resource assembles the essential and current liturgical documents needed to prepare and learn about liturgical celebrations for Sunday. These pastoral overviews explain the theology, purpose, and authority of each of the included documents.
Author: Ettore Cirillo
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAided by modern measuring techniques, this unique analysis considers the way that liturgy has driven, since the early days of the Christian church, acoustical improvements and how developments in architectural technology itself opened up new liturgical possibilities. Nearly three dozen churches from around the world—which fall into major design types such as Baroque, Gothic, and Romanesque—are acoustically analyzed in this context.
Author: David T. Bradley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1493930974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design is a beautiful collection of recent work. This is a comprehensive compendium that far surpasses previous publications in the field in its depth, design, and information. Worship spaces of all major U.S. religions are covered. This book should be an obligatory reference for any consultant involved in church architecture and acoustics.” -Mendel Kleiner, author of Worship Space Acoustics, Acoustics: Information and Communication Series (J. Ross Publishing 2010) “All involved in their design will appreciate this presentation of recent rooms for religious worship.” -Leo L. Beranek, author of Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (Springer-Verlag 2004) “Through descriptions, photos, drawings, and acoustical data, this book provides valuable information on existing worship spaces designed during the past thirty years. This very well-edited book, including the Editors' Preface and six excellent essays from key people involved in worship space design, provides valuable information and ideas on the aesthetic, acoustic, and liturgical design of worship spaces for a number of faiths and in several countries.” -Robert Coffeen, principle at R. C. Coffeen, Consultant in Acoustics LLC, Lawrence, Kansas This book takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour through churches, synagogues, mosques, and other worship spaces designed during the past 30 years. The book begins with a series of essays on topics ranging from the soundscape of worship spaces to ecclesiastical design at the turn of the 21st Century. Perspective pieces from an architect, audio designer, music director, and worship space owner are also included. The core of the book presents the acoustical and architectural design of a wide variety of individual worship space venues. Acoustical consulting firms, architects, and worship space designers from across the world contributed their recent innovative works in the area of worship space acoustics. The contributions include detailed renderings and architectural drawings, as well as informative acoustic data graphs and evocative descriptions of the spaces. Filled with beautiful photography and fascinating modern design, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in religious architecture, acoustical design, or musical performance.
Author: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1000207447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIcons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.
Author: Reverend Gerald Dennis Gill
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2022-01-07
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1618330241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe approval and publication of the document Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship, developed by the United States Bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, paves the way for further and more comprehensive application of the Church's norms and directives for the sung celebration of the Sacred Liturgy in our country. Music in Catholic Liturgy: A Pastoral and Theological Companion to Sing to the Lord is is an essential, practical, and theological resource for all involved in the preparation of the sung celebration of the Sacred Liturgy, especially parish priests and liturgical music ministers, with an easily accessible way to read, to more completely understand, and make excellent pastoral use of the direction now given to US parishes in Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship.
Author: Michael Kurek
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1642290939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic remains something of a mystery to many people—ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air—here, and then gone. This book begins with the basic question of what music actually is, scientifically, employing simple, clear explanations of wave theory and the acoustics of sound as part of God's natural creation. It presents accessible and fascinating explanations of some theories of the psychology of perception of music, how music speaks to the mind, emotions, and spirit. Some of these concepts have rarely been addressed outside the ivory tower and even more rarely been seen through the lens of Catholic theology. Moving from music and the individual to music in the culture and the Church, the author addresses numerous issues in the context of Catholic thought, including: immanence and transcendence in music the Real Presence and music Moral Theology, Natural Law and music ordered and disordered understandings of music as it relates to the emotions understanding the authentic meanings of "beauty" and "creativity" the real function of music in Catholic liturgy the role of music in evangelization This is a kind of "layman's handbook," a comprehensive theology of all things music, which anyone can understand, written by an internationally respected classical composer and music professor at a top secular university who is also a faithful Catholic. It sheds light on the mysteries of music and furthers the spiritual formation regarding music for Catholics of many ages and walks of life. It is groundbreaking in its comprehensive and holistic treatment of music from a Catholic perspective, and particularly timely in advocating for the renewal of the norms for music in liturgy found in the documents of Vatican II. It also presents one of the most penetrating critical examinations to be found of contemporary classical music, from an insider.
Author: Rev. Michael S. Driscoll
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Published: 2014-04-02
Total Pages: 803
ISBN-13: 1618330985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pastoral resource assembles in one convenient volume the essential and current liturgical documents needed to prepare and learn about liturgical celebrations for Sunday. Pastoral overviews explain the theology, purpose, and authority of each of the included documents.
Author: Roland Betancourt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1108870872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
