Abstract:

High school music instructors, high school music students, and acoustical consultants certainly care if their auditoria sound good for music, but not all high school districts or architects appear to be all that interested. Examples of some recently completed small high school (multipurpose) auditoria are presented. Some of these have not proven particularly satisfactory for music, and (thankfully) some have. Basic programming and design criteria to achieve satisfactory music performance and listening environments in small mulitpurpose auditoria are suggested.