Military Music Corps of the Spanish Armed Forces

This branch of the Army was created in 1989 with Law 17/89 Regulating the System of Professional Military Personnel, which centralized various branches of the Armed Forces for more efficient management.  The emblem of this branch is a lyre surrounded by two veined and fruited oak branches, joined at their trunks and tied at the point.

Members of the Military Music Corps are grouped into senior and basic ranks: in the former they hold the ranks from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel, and in the latter from sergeant to chief warrant officer, to whose titles the term "musician" is added. Training for members of this corps takes place at the Military Music School, created in 2001 and located at the Matacán School Group military base in Madrid. Its function is to train members of the Armed Forces' music units and to teach their two fundamental specializations: conducting and instrumental performance.