Sound and Space

in Renaissance Venice

Architecture, Music, Acoustics

Yale University Press, 2009
www.yalebooks.co.uk/soundandspace

Sound and Space

in Renaissance Venice

Architecture, Music, Acoustics

Yale University Press, 2009
www.yalebooks.co.uk/soundandspace

This website accompanies the book named above. The tracks available here are a selection from the series of choral experiments carried out in Venice between 8th and 15th April 2007 by the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, directed by David Hill, with organists Paul Provost and Léon Charles. 

The book is now available in ebook format here with links to the music embedded in the text.

The recordings were taken by Matthew Dilley using a Soundfield Microphone.

The Choir’s visit was sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, St John’s College Cambridge, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and supported by Chorus Cultura Venice.

The musical extracts, sung unrehearsed, indicate the acoustic properties of the churches, whether favourable or problematic. The text of the book includes analysis of the recordings.