Music venue

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cafés
, restaurants, bars, and retail outlets.

A music venue is any location used for a concert or musical performance. Music venues range in size and location, from a small

discothèques offer music in contemporary genres, such as rock, dance, country, and pop
.

The annual Dance Valley dance music festival in Spaarnwoude, Netherlands. Such music festivals typically include a large temporary stage, are held outdoors, and include other attractions such as food, performance art, and other social activities.

Music venues may be either privately or publicly funded, and may charge for admission. An example of a publicly funded music venue is a bandstand in a municipal park; such outdoor venues typically do not charge for admission. A nightclub is a privately funded venue operated as a profit-making business; venues like these typically charge an entry fee to generate a profit. Music venues do not necessarily host live acts;

PA system
.

Depending on the type of venue, the

grand piano in a restaurant
.

Characteristics

choral music
performed on-stage.

Music venues can be categorised in a number of ways. Typically, the genre of music played at the venue, whether it is temporary and who owns the venue decide many of the other characteristics.

Permanent or temporary venues

The majority of music venues are permanent; however, there are temporary music venues. An example of a temporary venue would be one constructed for a music festival.

Ownership

Music venues are typically either private businesses or public facilities set up by a city, state, or national government. Some music venues are also run by non-government organizations, such as music associations.

Genre

Some venues only promote and hold shows of one particular genre, such as opera houses. Stadiums, on the other hand, may show rock, classical, and world music.

Size and capacity

Music venues can be categorised by size and capacity. The smallest venues, coffeeshops and tiny nightclubs have room for tens of spectators; the largest venues, such as stadiums, can hold tens of thousands of spectators.

Indoor or outdoor

musical bands
performing outdoor concerts, providing shelter from the weather for the musicians.

Music venues are either outdoor or indoor. Examples of outdoor venues include

coffee bars
, and stadia.

Live or recorded music

Venues can play live music, recorded music, or a combination of the two, depending on the event or time of day.

Discothèques are mainly designed for prerecorded music played by a disc jockey
. Live music venues have one or more stages for the performers.

Admissions policy and opening hours

Venues may be unticketed, casual entry available on the door with a cover charge, or advance tickets only. A dress code may or may not apply.

Centrality of performance

At some venues, the main focus is watching the show, such as at opera houses or classical recital halls. In some venues that also include food and beverage service, the performers may be playing background music to add to the ambiance.

Types

Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado

Amphitheater

Main article:
Amphitheater

Amphitheaters are round- or oval-shaped and usually unroofed. Permanent seating at amphitheaters is generally tiered.

Bandshell and bandstand

Main articles:
Bandshell and Bandstand

A bandshell is a large, outdoor performing structure typically used by

concert bands and orchestras
. The roof and the back half of the shell protect musicians from the elements and reflect sound through the open side and out towards the audience. Bandstand is a small outdoor structure.

Concert hall

The Proms
, is a concert hall.
Main article:
Concert hall

A concert hall is a performance venue constructed specifically for instrumental classical music. A concert hall may exist as part of a larger performing arts center.

Jazz club

Main article: Jazz club

Jazz clubs are an example of a venue that is dedicated to a specific genre of music. A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live

quartets and trios
were mostly used, and the music became more of a music to listen to, rather than a form of dance music. As a result, smaller clubs with small stages became practical.

In the 2000s, jazz clubs may be found in the

residential buildings, in storefront locations or in the upper floors of retail businesses. They can be rather small compared to other music venues, such as rock music clubs, reflecting the intimate atmosphere of jazz shows and long-term decline in popular interest in jazz.[2] Despite being called "clubs", these venues are usually not exclusive. Some clubs, however, have a cover charge if a live band is playing. Some jazz clubs host "jam sessions
" after hours or on early evenings of the week. At jam sessions, both professional musicians and advanced amateurs will typically share the stage.

Live house

Main article: Live house

In Japan, small live music clubs are known as

wasei eigo) and is mainly used in East Asia. The oldest live house is Coffee House Jittoku (拾得, after the Chinese monk Shide "Foundling")[3] in Kyoto, founded in 1973 in an old sake warehouse. Soon afterwards, the idea spread through Japan. In recent years, similar establishments started to appear in big cities in South Korea and China
; many of them are also locally called "live houses."

Opera house

The world-renowned La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy
Main article: Opera house

An opera house is a theatre venue constructed specifically for

costumes and set building. While some venues are constructed specifically for operas, other opera houses are part of larger performing arts
centers. Indeed the term opera house itself is often used as a term of prestige for any large performing-arts center.

The

Palace of Caserta
, which became the model for other theaters. Given the popularity of opera in 18th and 19th century Europe, opera houses are usually large, often containing more than 1,000 seats. Traditionally, Europe's major opera houses built in the 19th century contained between about 1,500 to 3,000 seats, examples being
Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater (with 1,636), Warsaw's Grand Theatre (the main auditorium with 1,841), Paris' Palais Garnier (with 2,200), the Royal Opera House in London (with 2,268), and the Vienna State Opera (the new auditorium with 2,280). Modern opera houses of the 20th century such as New York's Metropolitan Opera House (with 3,800) and the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco (with 3,146) are larger. Many operas are better suited to being presented in smaller theaters, such as Venice's La Fenice
with about 1,000 seats.

In a traditional opera house, the auditorium is U-shaped, with the length of the sides determining the audience capacity. Around this are tiers of balconies, and often, nearer to the stage, are boxes (small partitioned sections of a balcony). Since the latter part of the 19th century, opera houses often have an

Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus where the pit is partially covered. The size of an opera orchestra varies, but for some operas, oratorios and other works, it may be very large; for some romantic period works (or for many of the operas of Richard Strauss), it can be more than 100 players. Similarly, an opera may have a large cast of characters, chorus, dancers and supernumeraries
. Therefore, a major opera house will have extensive dressing room facilities. Opera houses often have on-premises set and costume building shops and facilities for storage of costumes, make-up, masks, and stage properties, and may also have rehearsal spaces.

Major opera houses throughout the world often have highly mechanized

Tales of Hoffmann. London's Royal Opera House, which was remodeled in the late 1990s, retained the original 1858 auditorium at its core, but added completely new backstage and wing spaces as well as an additional performance space and public areas. Much the same happened in the remodeling of Milan's La Scala
opera house between 2002 and 2004.

Although stage, lighting and other production aspects of opera houses often make use of the latest technology, traditional opera houses have not used sound reinforcement systems with microphones and loudspeakers to amplify the singers, since trained opera singers are normally able to project their unamplified voices in the hall. Since the 1990s, however, some opera houses have begun using a subtle form of sound reinforcement called acoustic enhancement.

Public houses and nightclubs

Main articles:
Public house and Nightclub
A concert hall at Nosturi in Punavuori, Helsinki, Finland

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell

Punk music
.

A nightclub is an entertainment venue and

bouncers to screen prospective clubgoers for entry. Some nightclub bouncers do not admit people with informal clothing or gang apparel as part of a dress code. The busiest nights for a nightclub are Friday and Saturday night. Most clubs or club nights cater to certain music genres, such as house music or hip hop. Many clubs have recurring club nights on different days of the week. Most club nights focus on a particular genre or sound for branding effects.[8]

Stadiums and arenas

Main articles: Stadium and Arena
Main article: Stadium rock

A stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.

Madonna, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift, have undertaken large-scale stadium based concert tours.[17][18][19][20][21]

Theater

Main article: Theater (structure)

A theater or playhouse is a structure where

stage), while some theaters, such as "black box theaters", may not. For the audience, theaters may include balconies or galleries, boxes
, typically considered the most prestigious area of the house, and "house seats", known as "the best seats in the house", giving the best view of the stage.

See also

References

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