[Desdemona]

I use all those words...just room, live and dead differ. And audience rather than congregation ticks me off too.

[ArrogantBustard]

"Live" and "Dead" are acoustical terms. I'm not aware of any specifically ecclesiastical terms for those properties. Until the advent of the Modern Hideous school of church architecture, the was probably no such thing as a really acoustically dead church. By "room" do you mean the interior of the church as a whole? (Sanctuary and Nave combined?) There's probably a specific term for that, but I'd have to look it up.

Please don't take my comments as flames against you. I've suffered through some really awful "music ministries" over the years.

AB