Musique Center · the school music department hub · In active development
The whole music department, behind one address.
Rehearsal rooms, the writing desk, and a free public-domain library. One place your students and families can actually find.
Musique Center is being built. No school music department is running it live yet.
What Musique Center is
A music department is not one app. It is a choir room, a band room, a field, a writing desk, a library, and an office.
Those six things almost never live in one place. They live in a shared drive, a group text, a paper folder, and a booster page nobody can edit.
Musique Center is the front door that gathers them. It is one address you hand to a student, a parent, or a substitute. Behind it are thirteen rooms, each with a name and an honest status.
The hub keeps no records of its own. It stores no grades, no recordings, and no photographs. It points at the room that does the work. Then it tells you whether that room is finished.
That last part matters. Half of what a music department is sold arrives dressed as finished. This page labels every room as free, early access, or still being built.
The building, in four wings
Thirteen rooms, grouped the way a department actually splits its week. Every room below is a real address we own and build.
The rehearsal wing
Four rooms where an ensemble actually works. Choir, concert band, marching, and the band program’s own home.
The writing wing
Two rooms for putting notes on a page. The full suite, and a lighter bench built for a student’s own piece.
The library
Four shelves of public-domain music. Free to read and print, with the source shown beside each work.
Next door
Three adjacent surfaces: a music school platform, a vetted lesson network, and portraits with the instrument.
- Free · no signup Free to read and print today.
- Early access Usable, still being finished.
- In active development Being built. Not ready to rely on.
The rehearsal wing
Rehearsal is the part of the job nothing else replaces. These four rooms are built around a section drilling a passage until it holds.
choir.software
The choir room
Where a voice part gets drilled. Load the score, pick your part, and work the passage in tempo until it holds.
Open this room → In active development
concertband.software
The band room
Score and parts in one place. Isolate a section, slow the passage down, and drill the entrance before the downbeat.
Open this room → In active development
marchingband.software
The marching field
The operator home for a marching program. Free engraved editions, competition scheduling, and photo day, kept on one calendar.
Open this room → In active development
schoolband.network
The program office
One home for a band program. Every ensemble, the booster treasury, the instrument records, and the season calendar.
Open this room → In active development
Each room is its own product with its own page. Musique Center does not repeat their features here.
The writing wing
Two rooms for the written page. One is the full suite. The other is a lighter bench for a student writing an original piece.
musique.software
The writing desk
The suite itself. A notation engraver for setting scores and parts, and SONUS, a multitrack workstation for recording.
Open this room → In active development
composer.software
The student composer bench
A composing surface in the browser. Build a score, engrave it, re-time and transpose it, and reopen it later.
Open this room → In active development
Neither room composes for you. A person writes the notes. The tool sets them on the page.
The library
Four shelves of music in the public domain. Free to read, free to print, and free to perform. No account, and nothing to buy.
freeschoolmusic.com
The sheet music shelf
Free music for school ensembles, browsable by ensemble and difficulty. Read it, print it, and rehearse it without a license fee.
Open this room → Free · no signup
caroling.app
The carol shelf
A national home for public-domain carols. Lyric sheets you can share by link, with the provenance shown in plain sight.
Open this room → Free · no signup
hymnal.software
The hymn shelf
A curated library of public-domain hymns. Every text and tune is verified free to read, print, and sing.
Open this room → Free · no signup
hymnbook.software
The song leader’s stand
One screen for leading. Select the hymn, transpose the key, and advance verse by verse from any browser.
Open this room → Early access
The library is free on purpose and stays free. A department budget should go to instruments, not to per-copy fees.
Next door
Three surfaces that sit beside a school department rather than inside it. They are listed because a director often needs them anyway.
musicschool.software
The music school office
Built for a youth music school rather than a department. Scheduling, families, consent, and recital season in one platform.
Open this room → Early access
musiclessons.network
The private teacher network
A vetted lesson network where parental veto is the default. Every relationship needs consent and every message is parent-visible.
Open this room → Early access
musicschool.photos
The portrait room
Portraits taken with the instrument, sold to music families cleanly. Consent-gated capture, and no face scan by default.
Open this room → Early access
Adjacent, not part of the department. A public school program can ignore all three and lose nothing.
Which door do I open?
A hub earns its keep by answering this in one glance. Find yourself in the left column.
| You are | You open | Because |
|---|---|---|
| A choir director | The choir room | Drill a voice part at a tempo the section can hold. |
| A band director | The band room | Pull a section out of the score and rebuild the entrance. |
| Marching staff | The marching field | Keep the competition calendar and the show parts together. |
| A booster treasurer | The program office | The treasury, the instrument records, and the season in one home. |
| A student composer | The composer bench | Write an original piece and engrave it without installing anything. |
| A student in a section | The rehearsal room for the ensemble | Loop the eight bars that keep falling apart. |
| A family | This page | Find the department without hunting through a school website. |
| A song leader | The song leader’s stand | Lead from one screen and transpose into a singable key. |
| Anyone who needs music | The library shelves | Free public-domain scores, lyric sheets, and hymns. |
Setting it up, in five steps
None of this is a migration project. A department should be able to do it between two class periods.
- 1. Claim the department. You tell us which school and which ensembles. We do not guess a roster and we never import one uninvited.
- 2. Choose the rooms. Open only the rooms you want. A choir-only program never sees a marching field it does not have.
- 3. Set consent first. Recording, photo, and directory consent are chosen before anything is captured. The default is no.
- 4. Hand out one address. Students and families get one link. It replaces the drive folder, the group text, and the printed sheet.
- 5. Keep the calendar honest. Concerts, competitions, and rehearsal changes live in one place. A parent should never need to ask twice.
Musique Center is in active development. Today these five steps describe the design, not a signup you can finish.
For the director who runs all of it alone
Most K-12 music departments are one person with three ensembles and a booster board. This page is written for that person.
One link to hand out
You stop maintaining four copies of the same information. There is one address, and it is the one you say out loud.
One place to look
Rehearsal, repertoire, the calendar, and the library sit together. You stop opening five tabs to answer one question.
A substitute can run it
The rooms are named in plain language. Someone covering your class can find the right one without a phone call.
Honest labels
Every room says whether it is free, early access, or still being built. You never plan a concert around a promise.
Nothing to install
The rooms are being built to run in a browser on school hardware. No cart of laptops with a special build.
No lock on your music
The library is public domain. What you write in the writing wing is yours, and it leaves in a portable file.
For students and families
A parent should not have to hunt a school website to learn when the winter concert starts. That is the whole promise of a front door.
The public side of the hub is meant to carry the plain facts: the ensembles, the season, and the library. No login for any of that.
A student uses the same address to reach the rehearsal room for their ensemble. They loop the eight bars that keep falling apart, at a tempo they can hold.
Anything that touches a specific student sits behind consent and access control instead. The public page and the student record are kept apart on purpose.
None of the public side is live yet. It is described here as design, and the honest status band below says the same thing.
Consent, recordings, and concert photos
A music department records children. That is the ordinary work of rehearsal, and it deserves a plain rule rather than a policy page.
A minor’s name, face, and recording are consent-gated. None of it is publicly browsable, and none of it is sold.
Consent is chosen before anything is captured, and the default is no. A family can withdraw it at any time, for any reason.
A rehearsal recording belongs to the school. It is not used to train anything, here or anywhere else.
Face matching is off by default. No school can turn it on. Face matching is not wired in the shipping product and cannot be switched on from it: it holds no face-recognition model weights, and no face template is computed from a photo. Photo finding uses a permission-checked roster lookup instead. When a family says stop, we delete the record and matching stops. We would rather say that than imply an erasure.
Where the library music comes from
Every work on the library shelves is in the public domain. The provenance for each one is shown beside it, not buried in a policy.
The shelves carry works engraved from a verified public-domain source, on our own infrastructure. A score there is not a copy of any copyrighted edition.
We make no claim about which program set any particular page. The claim we do make is about the source and the rights, which is the part that protects you.
Engraved notation continues to arrive as the engine matures. Where a work is lyrics only today, its page says lyrics only.
If a work’s rights look wrong to you, tell us. We pull it while we check. That is the only responsible rule.
Money, said plainly
There is no price on this page and no checkout on it. Nothing here takes a payment, and nothing here moves money.
The public-domain library is free and stays free. That is a commitment, not an introductory offer.
Booster dues and fundraising are a real part of a band program. They belong to the program office room, and they are described there rather than here.
When there is pricing for the rest, it will be written down in one place. We would rather say nothing than post a number we have not set.
Honest status, room by room
One table, thirteen rooms, three possible answers. Nothing is averaged into a single reassuring number.
| Room | Address | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The choir room | choir.software | In active development |
| The band room | concertband.software | In active development |
| The marching field | marchingband.software | In active development |
| The program office | schoolband.network | In active development |
| The writing desk | musique.software | In active development |
| The student composer bench | composer.software | In active development |
| The sheet music shelf | freeschoolmusic.com | Free · no signup |
| The carol shelf | caroling.app | Free · no signup |
| The hymn shelf | hymnal.software | Free · no signup |
| The song leader’s stand | hymnbook.software | Early access |
| The music school office | musicschool.software | Early access |
| The private teacher network | musiclessons.network | Early access |
| The portrait room | musicschool.photos | Early access |
Musique Center itself is in active development. It is listed as a room in no table because it is the building.
Some rooms are built in code but not yet wired to their own public address. If a door does not open for you, that is why.
What changes
No competitor is named on this page. The thing this replaces is usually not a product at all.
| How it usually goes | What this is for |
|---|---|
| The concert date lives in a group text from September. | One calendar, at one address, that a parent can check at midnight. |
| Parts are a scanned folder nobody can find on a phone. | The score and the parts live in the room where the section rehearses. |
| Sheet music budget goes to per-copy licensing every season. | A free public-domain shelf, with the provenance shown for each work. |
| Photo and recording permission is a paper form in a drawer. | Consent is recorded first and enforced by the system that holds the file. |
| The booster treasury lives in a spreadsheet on one laptop. | The program office holds the treasury and the instrument records together. |
| Each tool is rented from a different vendor with its own login. | Every room in this building is owned and built by one company. |
Six of these are true of most departments we have talked to. None of it requires a villain.
Questions a director actually asks
What is Musique Center?
It is the front door for a school music department. One address gathers the rehearsal rooms, the writing tools, the free library, and the program office. It holds no records of its own. It is a place to start, not another system to maintain.
Can our department use it today?
No. Musique Center is in active development and no music department is running it live yet. This page describes what the hub is for and where each room stands. Early access is how you get in while it is being built.
How is this different from musique.software?
That is the tool for making music: a notation engraver and SONUS, the multitrack workstation. This is the place a department gathers. One writes and records. The other points every student, parent, and director to the right room.
Do we have to use every room?
No. A choir-only program opens the choir room and the library and ignores the rest. Rooms you do not turn on are not shown. The hub is an index, so an unused room costs you nothing.
What does it cost?
There is no price on this page and no checkout anywhere on it. The public-domain libraries are free to read and print, and they stay that way. Pricing for the rest is a conversation, not a number we have not set yet.
Who can see our students?
Nobody outside the school, by default. A minor’s name, face, and recording are consent-gated and never publicly browsable. A family can withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal is the design, not a favor you have to ask for.
Is any of this AI?
No. Nothing here generates, arranges, or grades music. No machine writes a part, and no model answers for a teacher. Every tool in the building is one a musician drives. The music stays yours, start to finish.
Where does the sheet music come from?
The library shelves carry works engraved from a verified public-domain source, on our own infrastructure. A score there is not a copy of any copyrighted edition. The provenance for each work is shown next to it.
Does anyone have to install software?
The rooms are being built to run in a browser. That is the design goal for every one of them. Where a room is not there yet, its own page says so rather than promising it here.
Can families use it without an account?
That is the intent for the public side: dates, ensembles, and the library without a login. Anything touching a student stays behind consent and access control. The two are kept apart on purpose.
What happens to a rehearsal recording?
It belongs to the school, not to us. It is not public, not sold, and not used to train anything. A family can say no to their student being recorded, and no is the default until they say otherwise.
Some of these links do not open yet. Why?
Several rooms are built in code but not yet wired to their own public address. We would rather list them honestly with that caveat than hide them. If a door does not open, that is what is happening.
Who is behind Musique Center?
Stanley Studios, the company that builds the wider school platform and the Musique suite. Every room in this building is owned and built by us. Nothing here is a reseller shelf for someone else’s product.
What this page does not claim
Musique Center is in active development and not yet generally available. No school music department is running it live yet.
The thirteen rooms are real owned products at real addresses. Each is labelled free, early access, or in active development, and never averaged.
Some rooms are built in code but not yet wired to their own public address. That is stated in the status band rather than hidden.
Nothing on this page is AI. No music is generated, arranged, or graded by a machine.
No money moves here. There is no price, no checkout, and no payment claim of any kind.
Student names, faces, and recordings are consent-gated and never public. No school, count, or quotation on this page is invented, because there are none.