Journal article
Choir Size and Choral Dynamics
The Choral journal, Vol.60(10), pp.55-61
05/01/2020
Abstract
[...]consider the performance hall to have an average background noise floor of 30 dB as shown in Table 1 (which includes equipment and audience noise).8 Further, consider a single soft voice to produce 40 dB at a 20 m distance. The 10 dB differ ence between the voice and the noise would produce nearly double the perceived loudness of the voice over the background noise (an exact loudness doubling would be perceived at a 1000 Hz frequency). [...]for an average-size performance hall, a thirty-two-voice choir produces sufficient sound (on the order of 50 dB) for a pp dynamic at locations. Sound levels for rock concerts reach 120 dB, which is close to the threshold of pain.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Choir Size and Choral Dynamics
- Creators
- Ingo Titze
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Choral journal, Vol.60(10), pp.55-61
- Publisher
- American Choral Directors Association
- ISSN
- 0009-5028
- eISSN
- 2163-2170
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984719561902771
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