Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics.
Art and architecture are closely aligned with music: they are all creative endeavours that often overlap. Architects design concert spaces to enhance the sound of music for listeners and intimate music rooms for domestic social gatherings. In their paintings, artists depict dancehalls or pleasure gardens where music serenades the crowds, and so on.
Written by Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti, “Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics” is a newly released title on the Yale University Press A&AePortal. This fascinating book explores the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice by examining twelve church interiors: those of the ducal chapel of San Marco, two monasteries, three friaries, three parishes, and three state hospitals. Combining architectural and liturgical traditions of churches with the results of a parallel series of scientific surveys and choral experiments of the acoustic properties of the selected buildings.
The book provides links to live recordings of many musical compositions discussed in the text.