Music Services
To support Music-making at home and within schools, at this time we will upload exciting videos every day to support the music-making and well being that music-making gives.
Clod Ensemble’s Ear Opener is a learning programme which supports music creators. They create digital resources, facilitate in-person composition workshops with music students, work with teachers to develop their composition teaching skills, and advocate for the role of music in our lives.
Hubs and Music Services may need to provide pupils, parents and carers with instrument maintenance guides whilst the country is in lockdown. If you don’t have guides ready to go, we may be able to help! Inspiring Music, Bedfordshire, Hounslow Music Service, Barking and Dagenham Community Music Service, Buckinghamshire Music Trust and Warwick Music Groups have kindly shared their guides – get in touch with us at info@musicmark.org.uk if you have guides you can share with the wider membership or to let us know guides you need.
The Music Service Licence (MSL) enables music services to make copies and arrangements legally, and for musicians, writers, and publishers to be paid fairly for the use their works. It helps music hubs and services make the best use of printed music resources whilst ensuring they are copyright compliant.
Music Mark conducted a quick survey of its English membership music services at the start of October to see how engagement with schools was compared to the start of the 2019/20 academic year. We have published the results and report here.
RAF Music have created a digital concert resource to share with Music Services.
Viki Smith, General Manager of Printed Music Licensing Limited, and Abigail D’Amore lead this Q&A session covering the Music Service Licence and the School’s Printed Music Licence.
