page_title: Masonic lodge officers
section_title: Organist / Director of Music
hierarchical_section_title: Masonic lodge officers / Officers found in some jurisdictions and not in others / Organist / Director of Music
context_page_description: In Craft Freemasonry, sometimes known as Blue Lodge Freemasonry, every Masonic Lodge elects or appoints Masonic Lodge Officers to execute the necessary functions of the lodge's life and work. The precise list of such offices may vary between the jurisdictions of different Grand Lodges, although certain factors are common to all, and others are usual in most.
  All of the lodges in a given nation, state, or region are united under the authority of a Grand Lodge sovereign to its own jurisdiction. Most of the lodge offices listed below have equivalent offices in the Grand Lodge, but with the addition of the word "Grand" somewhere in the title. For example, every lodge has an officer called the "Junior Warden", whilst the Grand Lodge has a "Grand Junior Warden". A very small number of offices may exist only at the Grand Lodge level — such offices are included at the end of this article.
  There are few universal rules common to all Grand Lodge jurisdictions of Freemasonry. However, the structure of the progressive offices is very nearly universal.
context_section_description: The 'Organist' or 'Director of Music' provides musical accompaniment to lodge proceedings, although there is no set form.  Many lodge rooms are equipped with a pipe organ or electronic organ, and in others, there is provision for a wider range of instruments. In other places, the Director of Music operates recorded or digital music systems, such as at the Grand Lodge of Austria in Vienna.
caption: Jewel of the Organist