A textbook for a one-semester course for architecture students with a fairly solid background in science and mathematics, synthesizing academic rigor with practical details that might continue to prove useful when students are out in the big noisy world. The more technical topics are tagged to allow readers to skip them on first reading and return for detailed calculation. Though some chapters consider the design of rooms for public speech and for music performance and practice, most of the treatment is concerned with controlling sound where it is not wanted. A battery of appendices present data gathered by the authors over the years. Perhaps in order to discourage noise, the extensive glossary does not indicate pronunciation