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Acoustics, Liturgy and Architecture in the Early Christian Church. From the domus ecclesiae to the basilica

About: This article is published in Acta Acustica United With Acustica.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nave & Liturgy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the methodology used for the study of the acoustic environment of the Catholic cathedrals of southern Spain, and this is applied to the Cathedral of Malaga.

47 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the emblematic cathedral of Santiago de Compostela uses computer simulation to expose the acoustic behaviour of the original Romanesque space and its effect on the functional and spatial structure.

39 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess and recover the acoustics of a now extinct major religious space: the Maior Ecclesia in Cluny, recognised as European heritage.

34 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the presence of the congregation determined a significant improvement in monaural acoustical parameters, especially in reverberation which was strongly reduced in all cases, while spatial parameters showed negligible variations.

33 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the principal contributions to the acoustics of occidental Christian churches from the second half of the last century to the present day, mainly in ancient historical churches, are described and analyzed.

31 citations