Rediscovering the Intangible Heritage of Past Performative Spaces: Interaction between Acoustics, Performance, and Architecture

The relationship between the shape and social use of Greek Roman theatres has always been overshadowed by technical acoustic analyses these performance spaces. Relevant ruins illustrate typology, acoustics, construction development ancient theatres, which were mainly determined requirements artistic venues. music in tragedies comedies, dances, public speeches performed same places helped to constructions according events. In addition need satisfy political interactions, functions musical performances maintained across generations so that they organically coexisted both times. This paper presents new insights into relationships sound architecture, focusing on case study Greek–Roman theatre Katane its evolution through centuries. Architectural features have described terms rather than as mere results geometric rules. A brief comparison with neighboring odeion other made regarding destination use.