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Posted by Kris Krieger on May 17, 2008, 1:53 am
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>>> BTW I am in no way a musician
>>> and don't play an instrument or sing.
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>> Not necessary - one does not have to be able to do something, in
>> order to appreciate someone else's ability/performance of it or, for
>> that matter, to understand the technical aspects, and how those
>> interact with the artistic aspects :)
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> Domes are particularly bad for sound.
Oh! That's a bit fo a surprise. I guess the refelcted sound waves end up
crashing into one another and cancelling out...?
> We attended a service in Notre
> Dame Paris that taught me why Gregorian Chat was invented. It
> practically wound it's way around the columns and drifted upward with
> the incense. St. Paul's in London (domed) has an amplifying system for
> the priest that delays the sound to the rear of the church to match
> the actual time it takes for the spoken voice to reach the rear,
> thereby avoiding the echoing. It does work. I would imagine that St.
> Peters in Rome might have a similar system. EDS
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It's cool that you got to expereince those things. Chant...makes one
wonder about whether/the degree to which it all (music and the arrangement
of interior space) developed in tendem, each influencing the other? Could
the space have been influenced at all by a desire to achieve the effect you
described...?
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