I call them sociocultural sound narratives, and as listeners we bring these with us into the concert hall, informing any listening experience.
One can imagine the chromatic scale like a symmetry in the pitch domain, similar to the lamps in the concert hall.
The idea was to turn the traditional layout of the concert hall on its head.
Indeed, a judiciously chosen orchestra afforded a pleasure not to be found on just any day in the concert hall.
With audiovisual rendering, lighting and acoustics of a modelled concert hall can be experienced early in the design stage of the building.
Chapters 4 and 5 specifically address musical spaces, with the former providing insight on factors that need to be considered in concert hall design.
The public sphere also included institutions such as coffeehouses, salons, museums and, in the case of music, the public concert hall and opera house.
But, if the concert hall and musicians were not real, they could play any time you wished.
