The music side of running an ensemble, finally in one place
Fugue Lab Music Manager is the music library, rehearsal planner, and ensemble roster for churches, choruses, and schools. Built by a working church musician, and used to plan real services every week.
$30 a month, $75 for Pro. For parishes it wears the name Canticle, with a liturgy layer that speaks your calendar.
The admin that eats the music
The library lives in a spreadsheet
What the choir sang, when, in whose arrangement, and how it went lives in one long spreadsheet, or in the director’s head. Repertoire planning starts from zero every season.
Rehearsal orders live in email chains
The order changes Thursday night, half the ensemble reads the old thread, and the accompanist finds out at the piano.
Personnel is a group text
Who is in this week, who needs a sub, who covered last time: coverage runs on memory and last-minute messages.
The tools are not built for ensembles
Project managers do not know what an anthem, a service, or a voice part is. Directors end up as the integration layer.
What it does
Music library
Your repertoire with history attached: every piece, every performance date, every edition and arrangement, searchable when you plan the next season.
Rehearsal planning
Rehearsal orders and service plans in one place, current for everyone the moment they change. No more competing email threads.
Ensemble management
Rosters and voice parts today; the Pro tier adds attendance, multi-ensemble support, substitute management, and automations.
For churches, it is called Canticle
Parish music lives on a calendar the rest of the software world ignores. Canticle is the church layer of Music Manager: liturgy- and lectionary-aware service planning, hymns and service music alongside anthems, and the personnel picture (section leaders, scholars, substitutes) that makes Sunday happen.
It is not a demo: Canticle plans the choral services at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church every week, run by the director who built it.
Pricing
Fugue Lab Music Manager
- Music library with performance history
- Rehearsal planning and service orders
- Roster and voice parts
- Pro: attendance, multi-ensemble, sub management, automations
- Canticle church layer included for parishes
Early access: our team onboards you hands-on. Pay annually and get 2 months free.
Questions
What does it cost?
$30 a month for the base: music library, rehearsal planning, and roster management. Pro is $75 and adds attendance, multi-ensemble, substitute management, and automations. Pay annually and get 2 months free.
Is this available today?
It runs every week in production, and we are onboarding early-access ensembles hands-on: our team sets it up with you and stays close. Book a call and we will tell you honestly whether your situation is a fit right now.
What is Canticle?
Canticle is the church layer of Music Manager: liturgy- and lectionary-aware planning, service music, hymns, and personnel for parish programs. Churches get everything above, plus the layer that speaks their calendar.
Does it require the rest of Fugue Lab?
No. Music Manager stands on its own. It also composes with the church stack (website, email, donor management) if you want the whole program on one platform with one audience record.