Highly articulated music needs drier acoustics than slow harmonic music

Evidence

First, there is a range of reverberation times that are a function of the type of music being played; music with a high degree of articulation needs a drier acoustic than music that is slower and more harmonic. Second, as the performance space gets larger, the reverberation time required for all types of music becomes longer. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1914

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to psychoacoustics work on speech intelligibility (STI) and consonant masking in reverberant spaces, relevant to the reader’s listening/silence interest.