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According to Wikipedia, Leo Leroy Beranek was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman . He authored Acoustics, considered a classic textbook in this field, and its updated and extended version published in 2012 under the title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers. He was also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses, and authored the classic textbook Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, revised and extended in 2004 under the title Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture.

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Noise and vibration control (1971) (851)
Noise and Vibration Control Engineering: Principles and Applications (1992) (574)
Noise and Vibration Control Engineering (2005) (300)
Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound (1996) (282)
Concert halls and opera houses : music, acoustics, and architecture (2005) (207)
Interaural cross‐correlation, lateral fraction, and low‐ and high‐frequency sound levels as measures of acoustical quality in concert halls (1995) (156)
Handbook of noise measurement (1956) (156)
Relations among interaural cross-correlation coefficient (IACCE), lateral fraction (LFE), and apparent source width (ASW) in concert halls. (1998) (147)
Sound Transmission through Multiple Structures Containing Flexible Blankets (1949) (141)
Concert Halls And Opera Houses (2003) (135)
Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (1992) (126)
Acoustic Impedance of Porous Materials (1942) (121)
The Design of Speech Communication Systems (1947) (116)
Acoustical Properties of Homogeneous, Isotropic Rigid Tiles and Flexible Blankets (1947) (101)
The Design and Construction of Anechoic Sound Chambers (1946) (100)
Balanced noise-criterion (NCB) curves (1989) (92)
Sound absorption in concert halls by seats, occupied and unoccupied, and by the hall’s interior surfaces (1998) (81)
Revised Criteria for Noise in Buildings (1957) (78)
Analysis of Sabine and Eyring equations and their application to concert hall audience and chair absorption. (2006) (66)
Preferred noise criterion (PNC) curves and their application to rooms. (1971) (58)
Criteria for Office Quieting Based on Questionnaire Rating Studies (1956) (58)
Concert hall acoustics (2011) (44)
Music, Acoustics & Architecture (1963) (34)
Audience and Seat Absorption in Large Halls (1960) (31)
Relation of acoustical parameters with and without audiences in concert halls and a simple method for simulating the occupied state. (2001) (30)
Audience and Chair Absorption in Large Halls. II (1969) (29)
Concert & Opera Halls: How They Sound (1996) (29)
The sound strength parameter G and its importance in evaluating and planning the acoustics of halls for music. (2011) (29)
Apparatus and Procedures for Predicting Ventilation System Noise (1953) (26)
Mechanism of sound absorption by seated audience in halls. (2001) (26)
Analysis of Sound Decay in Rectangular Rooms (1939) (26)
Precision Measurement of Acoustic Impedance (1940) (24)
Acoustic Impedance of Commercial Materials and the Performance of Rectangular Rooms with One Treated Surface (1940) (22)
ACOUSTICS AND MUSICAL QUALITIES (1996) (19)
The noisy dawn of the jet age (2007) (19)
Acoustics of Philharmonic Hall, New York, during Its First Season (1964) (18)
Worship Space Acoustics (2010) (18)
Comments on draft ANSI S12.2, American National standard on criteria for evaluating room noise (2005) (17)
Application of NCB Noise Criterion Curves (1989) (15)
Errata: Acoustic Measurements (1951) (15)
Relation of acoustical parameters with and without audiences in concert halls and a simple method for simulating the occupied state (1998) (14)
Concert hall acoustics: Recent findings. (2016) (14)
Calculation and Measurement of the Loudness of Sounds (1950) (14)
Interaural cross correlation (IACC) as a measure of spaciousness and envelopment in concert halls (1992) (14)
Criteria for Noise in Buildings and Communities (2007) (13)
Reaction of People to Exterior Aircraft Noise (1959) (12)
Mechanism of sound absorption by seated audiences in concert halls (1996) (11)
Some Notes on the Measurement of Acoustic Impedance (1947) (11)
Music and Acoustics (2004) (11)
Listener Envelopment LEV, Strength G and Reverberation Time RT in Concert Halls (2010) (9)
Mean-free-paths in concert and chamber music halls and the correct method for calibrating dodecahedral sound sources. (2014) (8)
Relations between the apparent source width (ASW) of the sound field in a concert hall and its sound pressure level at low frequencies (GL), and its inter‐aural cross correlation coefficient (IACC) (1994) (8)
Acoustics of Philharmonic Hall, New York (1962) (7)
Loudspeakers and microphones (1954) (7)
Basic Acoustical Quantities: Levels and Decibels (2007) (7)
Chapter 8 – Cellphone acoustics (2012) (7)
Applications of NCB and RC noise criterion curves for specification and evaluation of noise in buildings (1997) (7)
Introduction and terminology (2019) (7)
Acoustical Behavior of Some Engine Test Cell Structures (1955) (6)
The Acoustics of Performance Halls: Spaces for Music from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl (2010) (6)
Sound Control in Airplanes (1947) (6)
Airports and Jet Noise (1959) (6)
BBN's earliest days: founding a culture of engineering creativity (2005) (6)
Noise and Vibration Control—Revised Edition, 1988 (1990) (5)
Sound Absorption in Rectangular Ducts (1940) (5)
Speech Interference Levels as Criteria for Rating Background Noise in Offices (1950) (5)
American Standard Method for the Pressure Calibration of Laboratory Standard Microphones Z24.4—1949 (Abridged) (1950) (5)
Orchestra Enclosure and Canopy for the Tanglewood Music Shed (1961) (5)
Chapter 6 – Electrodynamic loudspeakers (2012) (5)
Concert Hall Design: Some Considerations (2015) (5)
The Acoustical Design of Concert Halls (1994) (5)
Chapter 9 – Horn loudspeakers (2012) (5)
Who really invented the internet (2007) (5)
Seeking Concert Hall Acoustics (2007) (5)
Acoustics of Concert Halls (2004) (5)
Airplane Quieting II—Specification of Acceptable Noise Levels (1947) (5)
Design for acoustics (1949) (4)
Unsolved Military Noise Problems (1952) (4)
A comparison between shoebox and non‐shoebox halls based on objective measurements in actual halls (2008) (4)
Concert Hall Design—Present Practices (2011) (4)
HANDBOOK OF ACOUSTIC NOISE CONTROL. VOLUME I. PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS (1952) (4)
Acoustics and the Concert Hall (1973) (4)
Wallace C. Sabine, acoustical consultant (1981) (4)
Experiments in External Noise Reduction of a Small Pusher-Type Amphibian Airplane (1952) (4)
Noise Control for NACA Supersonic Wind Tunnel (1955) (4)
Noise reduction: Prepared for a special summer program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980) (4)
The notebooks of Wallace C. Sabine (1977) (3)
The wave equation and solutions (2019) (3)
Sound Absorption Technology (1996) (3)
American Standard Method for the Coupler Calibration of Earphones Z24.9—1949 (Abridged) (1950) (3)
The Forty-Fifth Thomas Hawksley Lecture: The Transmission and Radiation of Acoustic Waves by Structures: (1959) (3)
Mean-free-paths in concert and chamber-music halls and validation of the Sabine/Eyring equations for predicting their reverberation times (2013) (3)
Acoustical treatment for the NACA 8- by 6-foot supersonic propulsion wind tunnel (1955) (3)
Acoustic Design for Transport Helicopters (1957) (3)
Sound Systems for Large Auditoriums (1954) (3)
Reflectivity of Panel Arrays in Concert Halls (1963) (3)
Experiments in External Noise Reduction of Light Airplanes (1950) (3)
Sound in enclosures (2019) (3)
One Hundred Concert Halls and Opera Houses (2004) (3)
Acoustical design of the medium theater of the New National Theater, Tokyo, Japan (1998) (2)
Digital synthesis of speech and music (1970) (2)
Measurement of the Transmission of Sound through Lightweight Structures (1946) (2)
Developments in studio design (1950) (2)
Speech-Reinforcement System Evaluation (1951) (2)
Changing role of the ’’expert’’ (1975) (2)
America needs a new national noise policy (2003) (2)
The Design of Anechoic Sound Chambers (1946) (2)
Listening to the acoustics in concert halls (2004) (2)
How Acousticians Listen (2010) (2)
Noise Levels Inside the Caravelle During Flight (1958) (2)
Boston Symphony Hall: An Acoustician's Tour (1988) (2)
Comments on ‘‘intimacy’’ and ITDG concepts in musical performing spaces (2004) (1)
Reply to Shankland's Letter (1963) (1)
Progress in Noise Control (1955) (1)
Sabine and Acoustics (1986) (1)
Wallace Clement Sabine and Acoustics (1985) (1)
The Language of Musical Acoustics (2004) (1)
Sound strength parameter G in concert hall design. (2011) (1)
New subjective and objective data on 20 opera houses of the world (1999) (1)
Acoustical Design for Transport Helicopters (1959) (1)
Acoustical Modeling as a Tool in Problem Solving (1969) (1)
Some remarks on electro‐mechano‐acoustical circuits (1983) (1)
Broadcast Studio Redesign (1955) (1)
Chapter 4 – Acoustic components (2012) (1)
The acoustical design of Boston Symphony Hall (1979) (1)
Orchestra Enclosure for the Tanglewood Music Shed (1959) (1)
The Acoustical Society of America’s historical contributions to noise and its control (2000) (1)
Acoustics, 1986 edition by Leo L. Beranek (1988) (1)
Reindustrialization: From Shoes to Ships to Sealing Wax (2010) (1)
Chapter 7 – Loudspeaker systems (2012) (1)
Criteria for controlling noise and vibration (1989) (1)
Determination of the Loudness of Noise from Simple Measurements (1948) (1)
Comparison of the Take‐Off Noise Characteristics of the Comet Jet Airliner and of Conventional Propeller‐Driven Airliners (1958) (1)
Electro-mechano-acoustical circuits (2012) (1)
Comparison of the Take‐Off Noise Characteristics of the Caravelle Jet Airliner and of Conventional Propeller‐Driven Airliners (1957) (1)
Radiation and scattering of sound by the boundary value method (2019) (1)
Criteria for Noise in Office Spaces (1957) (1)
Art + Physics = Beautiful Music (2008) (1)
Acoustics of Opera Houses (2004) (1)
Excerpts from Concert Hall Acoustics—1989 (1990) (1)
Precision Measurement of Acoustic Impedance of Sound Absorbing Materials (1941) (0)
Rudolf zahradnik president of the academy of sciences of the czech republic (1993) (0)
From articulation index to speech privacy: A review (2006) (0)
EVALUATION OF METHODS FOR REDUCING NOISE FROM JET ENGINES IN FLIGHT (1956) (0)
Acoustics of the Jerusalem Congress Hall (Binyanae Ha'oomah) (1961) (0)
Toward an overall computational scheme embodying the modern acoustical measures and correlation of the scheme with the categories of acoustical quality of concert halls as determined from the questionnaire and interview method (1995) (0)
Erratum: Acoustics in Comfort and Safety (1950) (0)
Erratum: Design of loudspeaker grilles (1951) (0)
Dah-You Maa, friend and scholar (2013) (0)
Paul S. Veneklasen: The War Years, 1941–1945 (1997) (0)
Suggestion on Reference Quantities for Power Levels (1956) (0)
Handbook of Acoustics (2009) (0)
Objective and subjective measurement of 15 opera houses in Europe and the USA (1998) (0)
Some Aspects of Concert Hall Acoustics (1961) (0)
The Attenuation of Sound in Ducts (1941) (0)
Noise Levels Inside the Prototype Caravelle Twin‐Jet Airliner During Flight (1957) (0)
Arnold P. G. Peterson • 1914–2003 (2004) (0)
Civilian technology development. (1990) (0)
Fortieth anniversary celbration of the founding of INCE/USA (2011) (0)
Laymon Miller, distinguished consultant in noise control engineering at Bolt Beranek and Newman (2015) (0)
Iowa and Beyond: From Bumblebees to Ivy (2008) (0)
Family, Nonprofits, and Variety (2008) (0)
Noise Measurements, 1977 (1977) (0)
Leo L. Beranek: Biographical and Autobiographical Perspectives (2015) (0)
Concert Hall Design (1958) (0)
Industrial Noise‐Control Procedures (1965) (0)
Sound and its measurement. (1952) (0)
Radiation and scattering of sound by the boundary integral method (2019) (0)
Sound pulses: by F. G. Friedlander. 202 pages, diagrams, in. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1958. Price, $7.50 (1959) (0)
Design of loudspeaker grilles (1951) (0)
Earning My Way in Iowa: Prologue to a Career in Sound (2008) (0)
On the Design of Sound Absorbing Ducts (1951) (0)
Wartime: Communications and Kamikazes (2008) (0)
Noise Reduction in a Passenger Airplane (1955) (0)
Karl Kryter and psychoacoustics at Bolt Beranek and Newman (2015) (0)
Harry F. Olson (1982) (0)
Sound absorption by seats in concert halls, occupied and unoccupied, and average sound absorption by the interior surfaces of halls. (1996) (0)
Early reactions to Yoichi Ando's book, Concert Hall Acoustics (1988) (0)
Basic Measurements on the Physical Characteristics of Speech Transmission Systems (1945) (0)
Architectural Acoustics and Noise : Distinguished Lecture : Analysis of Community Response to Transportation Noise a Quarter Century After Schultz „ 1978 (0)
Waves and Impedances (2007) (0)
INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT AND GENERATION OF HIGH INTENSITY SOUND (1957) (0)
J. Christopher Jaffe: Scientist and friend (2014) (0)
Report on International Conference on Sound Transmission and Noise, Conducted by Acoustics Group of the Physical Society of London, July 14–16, 1948 (1949) (0)
Shoehorning in the jet age (2003) (0)
Discussion on the Forum on Motion Picture Theater Acoustics (1951) (0)
Harvard: Shaping the Future (2008) (0)
Electromechanical Analogs of the Filt r Systems Used in Sound Recording Trans (1966) (0)
Richard H. Bolt: Scientist, educator and friend (2003) (0)
Electrostatic loudspeakers (2019) (0)
Appendix B: American System of Units (2005) (0)
Worldwide Low-Frequency Ambient Noise Computer Simulation for Predicting Acoustic Scattering from Objects at the Bottom of the Ocean Acoustic Cloaking Acoustics Today (2015) (0)
Bolt Beranek & Newman, the United Nations, Big Noise, and the Internet (2008) (0)
Program of the Forty-Third Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (2004) (0)
Experimental theater of the New National Theater Tokyo, Japan (2004) (0)
Sound absorption in concert halls: Rectangular versus other shapes; Sabine versus Eyring equations (2006) (0)
Orchestra Enclosure for the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan (1959) (0)
Microphones (2019) (0)
Sound quality (SQ) of concert halls: Physical and subjective attributes (2003) (0)
Richard Henry Bolt • 1911–2002 (2003) (0)
Schultz, Theodore J. • 1922–1989 (1990) (0)
Correlations between categories of acoustical quality for forty concert halls and measured physical parameters for them: RT, EDT, IACC, LF, G, ITDG, BR, C(80) and diffusion (1995) (0)
Program of the Forty-Third Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (2004) (0)
Subjective evaluation of a concert hall’s acoustics using a free‐format‐type questionnaire and comparison with objective measurements (2002) (0)
Recent data on audience and chair absorption (1993) (0)
My 65 years in acoustics (2004) (0)
Appendix C: Conversion Factors (2005) (0)
Honorary Membership of the Acoustical Society of China (2012) (0)
Correlation of the Audio Characteristics of Communication Systems with Measured Articulation Scores (1946) (0)
Explanations from Theory for Differences between Laboratory and Field T. L. Data (1959) (0)
The scientific career of Theodore J. Schultz (1990) (0)
Appendix A: General References (2005) (0)
Architectural acoustics: Some pioneering and some prognostication. (1992) (0)
Room design for loudspeaker listening (2012) (0)
William W. Lang’s days at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, founding of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering and his efforts at creating a national noise policy (2005) (0)
John Kopec and the papers of Wallace C. Sabine (2006) (0)
Materials and Techniques for Sound Control in Airplanes (1941) (0)
Absorption of Audiences Seated in Upholstered Chairs (1966) (0)
Objective and Subjective Measurement of Fifteen Opera Houses in Europe , Japan and Americas (1998) (0)
Airplane Quieting I—Measurement of Sound Levels in Flight (1947) (0)
RECENT SOCIO-LEGISLATION ON NOISE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (1969) (0)
Digital Speech Synthesis of and Music (1970) (0)
Reciprocity calibration of condenser microphones (2014) (0)
Thermodynamic and Viscous Absorption in Fibrous Acoustical Materials (1947) (0)
The personal papers of Wallace C. Sabine. (2009) (0)
Noise Control for Eight‐ by Six‐Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel (1952) (0)
Method for Measuring Noise of Ventillating Fans (1953) (0)
Eckel, Oliver C. • 1904–1989 (1989) (0)
IEEE Signal Processing Society (2018) (0)
Drama Theater of the New National Theater (NNT), Tokyo, Japan (2004) (0)
Performance of Rectangular Rooms with One Treated Surface (1940) (0)
The design of loudspeaker enclosures (1950) (0)
Noise, Health, and Architecture. (1969) (0)
Attenuation of Sound by Light‐Weight Multiple Structures (1948) (0)
Acoustics of the Fredric R. Mann Concert Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel (1959) (0)
Design of Direct‐Radiator Loudspeaker Systems (1953) (0)
Noise Control Treatment for a 15‐Passenger Commercial Helicopter (1957) (0)
Building noise criterion curves, BNC, for interior spaces (1988) (0)
Rating Scales for Auditorium Acoustics (1970) (0)
Acoustics of the Binyanei Ha'Oomah Jerusalem Congress Hall (1961) (0)
Muffling the Jet Age (2008) (0)
Concert hall acoustics: Recent findingsa) (2016) (0)
Subjective Noise Ratings in Air Force Base Offices (1956) (0)
Concert hall acoustics: Recent research (2014) (0)
Electroacoustic Measuring Equipment and Techniques (1962) (0)
Sound Systems for Orchestra and Grand Opera (1966) (0)
Determination of categories of acoustical quality in concert halls using the questionnaire and interview method (1995) (0)
A Report on the International Conference on Acoustics, London, 1948 (1949) (0)
Acoustics and vibrational physics (1966) (0)
Survey of the Take‐Off Noise Characteristics of the Caravelle Jet Airliner and of Conventional Propeller‐Driven Airliners (1957) (0)
Chapter 14 – State variable analysis of circuits (2012) (0)
Revision of Noise Criteria Curves (1971) (0)
Seeking Communication: Musical‐Acoustic Vocabulary (1962) (0)
Caravelle Takeoff Noise Study (1958) (0)
Behavior of Engine Test Cell Structures (1954) (0)
Poles and zeros: Should scientists and artists be rubbed together? (1965) (0)
Harvey Fletcher: Friend and scientific critic (1995) (0)
Chapter 5 – Microphones (2012) (0)
Tentative Criteria for Noise Control Design (1952) (0)
CONCERT HALL DESIGN: NEW FINDINGS (2014) (0)
Newman, Robert Bradford • 1917–1983 (1984) (0)
Acoustics of Rooms for Classical Recordings (1967) (0)
Acoustics in Comfort and Safety (1949) (0)
Tribute to Russell Johnson: W. C. Sabine’s personal paper. (2008) (0)
ESTIMATE OF PERFORMANCE OF JET ENGINE NOISE SUPPRESSORS FOR FLIGHT USE (1957) (0)
Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry (2008) (0)
The need to revitalize our national noise policy (2002) (0)
Cell phone acoustics (2019) (0)
Vibroacoustics (membranes, plates, and shells) (2019) (0)
America's Best TV Station (2008) (0)
W. C. Sabine's personal papers (2009) (0)
Facilities of WCVB-TV, Boston (1972) (0)
MIT, Teaching, Writing, AT&T, and Traveling (2008) (0)

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