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Figures:<br/>0.1 St Paul's Cathedral (London: Raphael Tuck and Sons) 12 --<br/>0.2 St Paul's Cathedral in the midst of bomb damage, c. 1945 (Photochrom Ltd., Kent) 14 --<br/>0.3 Festival or Britain: aerial view of South Bank site, with Royal Festival Hall in lower left, 1951 (photographer unknown) 17 --<br/>Tuning concert at Royal Festival Hall, February 195t (photograph from Professor Peter Parkin's Collection) 18 --<br/>0.5 Mobile Acoustical Laboratory on site at the South Bank during construction of Royal Festival Hall (photograph from Professor Peter Parkin's Collection) 19 --<br/>0.6 St Paul's Cathedral at the opening of the Festival of Britain, May 1951 (printed in the Illustrated London News, 12 May 1951) 22 --<br/>0.7 Pistol shots fired in St Paul's Cathedral during a demonstration of experimental sound amplifying apparatus, 19 December 1951 (© Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans) 24 --<br/>I.I Westminster Cathedral just as construction was completed, c. 1903 (Valentine's Carbotone) 27 --<br/>I.2 Unadorned brick interior of Westminster Cathedral, 1903 (printed in RIBA Journal) 30 --<br/>I.3 Westminster Cathedral interior, 1903 (a) (printed in RIBA Journal) 31 --<br/>I.4 Westminster Cathedral interior, 1903 (b) (printed in RIBA Joumal) 32 --<br/>I.5 Westminster Cathedral interior, 1903 (c) (printed in RIBA Joumal) 32 --<br/>I.6 Westminster Cathedral plan, 2007 (courtesy of Westminster Cathedral and Surveyor to the Fabric) 33 --<br/>I.7 Westminster Cathedral long section, 2007 (courtesy of Westminster Cathedral and Surveyor to the Fabric) 33 --<br/>I.8 Richard Terry (1864-1938), Organist at Westminster Cathedral (© Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans) 36 --<br/>I.9 Grand opening of the Royal Albert Hall, March 1871 (as printed in The Graphic) 41 --<br/>I. 10 Portrait of Sedley Taylor (1834-1920) (painted by Margaret Bernardine Hall, 1898) 46 --<br/>2.1 Wallace Clement Sabine (1878 1919) (public domain) 53 --<br/>2.2 Sanders Theatre, c. 1876 (as published in Scribners Monthly) 54 --<br/>2.3 Interior of the Fogg Lecture Theatre, C. 1908 (courtesy of Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University) 55 --<br/>2.4 Seating plan of the Fogg Lecture Theatre (HUB 1401.2, Harvard University Archives) 55 --<br/>Photograph of Hope Bagenal (1888-1979), taken c. 1914 (courtesy of Bagenal Family) 71 --<br/>2.6 Ruined Church of S. Pierre in Merville, c. 1916, in a widely circulated war photograph taken by John Warwick Brook (National Library of Scotland Acc. 3155, Licence CC BY 4.0: Creative Commons) 74 --<br/>2.7 Plan of Riverbank Laboratory, 1919 (printed in American Architect) 77 --<br/>2.8 Section through Riverbank Laboratory, 1919 (printed in American Architect) 78 --<br/>3.1 London County Hall, c. 1921 82 --<br/>3.2 London County Council, council chamber, viewed from the east gallery, 1922 (© London Metropolitan Archives, City of London) 84 --<br/>3.3 Press coverage in the Times of the acoustics at London County Hall 85 --<br/>3.4 Plan of Herbert Baker's Legislative Building, New Delhi (printed in Architectural Review) 90 --<br/>3.5 Board room at design stage, Metropolitan Water Board (printed in Academy Architecture and Architectural Review) 92 --<br/>3.6 Henry Owen Weller, c. 1924 (Building Research Establishment) 95 --<br/>3.7 Adapted laboratory at Perivale munitions factory showing bricked up window, smooth cement render floor, and sound generating equipment (UK National Archives, Kew) 107 --<br/>3.8 Tucker hot wire microphone 111 --<br/>4.1 Letter of Ralph Vaughan Williams to Hope Bagenal, April 1923 (courtesy of ISVR Archives Southampton and Ralph Vaughan Williams Foundation) 120 --<br/>4.2 Interior of Queen's Hall, designed to replicate the body of a violin, 1928 (© BBC Archive) 122 --<br/>4.3 Interior of Kilbourn Hall (printed in Watson, Acoustics of Buildings, 1923) 128<br/>4.4 Advertisement for Broadwood Pianos 129 --<br/>4.5 Letter of Alim Built to Norbert Salter, 11 March 1929 (courtesy or ISVR Archives, Southampton) 137 --<br/>4.6 Opening of Queen's Hall, 1803 printed in the Illustrated London News) 142 --<br/>4.7 Plan of Queen's Hall, 1893 (printed in the lustrated London News) 143 --<br/>5.1 League of Nations Assembly Building under construction (United Nations Archive at Geneva, CC BY-NG-ND 3.0) 146 --<br/>5.2 Murals on perforated linen backed with acoustic felt, Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall, RIBA building (Historic England Archive) 158 --<br/>5.3 Elevation, part-plan, and section of the new RIBA building indicating strategic planning to shield from noise (printed in RIBA Journal)159 --<br/>5.4 Maycoustic Stone surfaces in the Henry Florence Memorial Hall, RIBA building (RIBA Collections) 160 --<br/>5.5 League of Nations, Salle de Conseil, wall finishings and mural in progress (United Nations Archive at Geneva, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) 161 --<br/>5.6 League of Nations, Assembly Hall (facing front) at the time of acoustic tests, before the murals were completed. Concave walls are plastered and painted (United Nations Archive at Geneva,CC BY-NG-ND 3.0) --<br/>5.7 League of Nations, Assembly Hall (facing rear) with murals to the concave corners of rear walls (United Nations Archive at Geneva, CC BY-NG-ND 3.0) 163 --<br/>5.8 League of Nations, Assembly Hall, mural Frat pax in virtute tua by Maurice Denis, mounted on concave corner with visible air gap above (United Nations Archive at Geneva, CC BY-NG-ND 3.0) 165 --<br/>5.9 Plan and section of the acoustics laboratory at the National Physical Laboratory, 1934 (printed in RIBA Journal) 170 --<br/>5.10 Reverberation chamber at the acoustics laboratory at the National Physical Laboratory, 1934 (printed in RIBA Journal)171 --<br/>5.11 Plan of the Mobile Acoustical Laboratory, 1952 (printed in Science) 172 --<br/>5.12 Mobile Acoustical Laboratory in the Netherlands (printed in Journal of Sound and Vibration) 173 --<br/>6.1 St Paul's Cathedral, interior (David Barrie, CC BY 2.0, original image rendered black and white) 175 --<br/>6.2 Technician at Abbey Road Studios, November 193r (British Pathé<br/>Ltd, Still #53) 180 --<br/>6.3 Sir Edward Elgar conducting in Studio 1, Abbey Road, November 193г (British Pathé Ltd, Still #165) 181 --<br/>6.4 'Queen's Hall Roof, the smaller auditorium at Queen's Hall that was frequently used by HIM for recording before Abbey Road (Historic England Archive) 182 --<br/>6.5 The main entrance to Queen's Hall on Langham Place (© BBC Archive) 183 --<br/>6.6 Glasgow Empire Exhibition concert hall, 1938 (printed in Architectural Review)<br/>188 --<br/>6.7 Glasgow Empire Exhibition concert hall repurposed as a theatre<br/>at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness (interior) (author's collection) 190 --<br/>7.1 Queen's Hall, May 1941 (Larkin Brothers) 195 --<br/>7.2 Score of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (public domain) 198 --<br/>7.3 Royal Albert Hall, c. 1880 (London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, J. Paul Getty Museum) 198 --<br/>7.4 National Gallery concert with backing curtain lowered for a performance of a Bach cantata, c. 1940/4I (printed in booklet for National Gallery Concerts Trustees) 199 --<br/>7.5 National Gallery concert with backing curtain raised for performance of Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto, c. 1940/47 (printed in booklet for National Gallery Concerts Trustees) 199 --<br/>7.6 Initial sketch design for canopy installation with fluting at the Royal Albert Hall, 1941 (printed in RIBA Journal) 203 --<br/>7.7 Alternative sketch design for canopy installation with asbestos sheeting at the Royal Albert Hall, 1941 (printed in RIBA Journal) 204 --<br/>7.8 Platform layout indicating screens, canopy, and floor reflector at the Royal Albert Hall, 1941 (printed in RIBA Journal) 207 --<br/>7.9 Lowered velarium with screens in position at the Royal Albert Hall just before re tuning for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 1941 (printed in RIBA Journal) 208 --<br/>7.10 Advertisement for the Proms' first season at the Royal Albert Hall, including Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, August 1941 (printed in the Times) 209 --<br/>7.11 Canopy in position at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall with Sir Henry Wood conducting, 1941 (printed in RIBA Journal) 210 --<br/>7.12 Wartime acoustic canopy in continued use for the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (author's collection) 211 --<br/>7.13 Acoustic diagrams of the Royal Albert Hall drawn by Hope Bagenal, c. 1929 (author's collection) 212 --<br/>7.14 Exterior of Royal Exchange, London (London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, J. Paul Getty Museum) 213 --<br/>7.15 Plan of Royal Exchange, London (Pictorial Handbook of London, 1854) 213 --<br/>7.16 St Paul's Cathedral, damage to north transept (printed in RIBA Journal) 214 --<br/>7.17 St Paul's Cathedral, W. Godfrey Allen coordinating fire watch © Imperial War Museum (HU 36132) 215 --<br/>C.I Royal Festival Hall, auditorium under construction (photograph from Professor Peter Parkin's collection) 223 --<br/>C.2 Royal Festival Hall, exterior, 1951 (Jarrold & Sons) 227 --<br/>C.3 Opening concert at Royal Festival Hall (as printed in the Times and the Illustrated London News) --<br/>C.4 Pistol fire in Royal Festival Hall (photograph from Professor Peter Parkin's collection) 229 --<br/>C.5 Sketch of insulating material and musical instruments (a) (drawn by John Cordwell, printed in RIBA Journal) 232 --<br/>C.6 Sketch of insulating material and musical instruments (b) (drawn by John Cordwell, printed in RIBA Journal) 232 -- |