The Club is a study group actively involved in promoting music education in many ways. It produces eight monthly programs a year, provides program contributions to civic and social affairs in Bloomington, and conducts exchange programs with clubs over the state of Indiana. Over the years individual members have also directed Junior Clubs, first established in 1921 and numbering six in 1979.

Formal organization of the club began in 1906, although the group had existed informally for some years before then, apparently as the Automathian Club. At the September 21, 1906 meeting, the name was changed to The Friday Musical Club, in October of that year it became affiliated with the Local Council of Women, and in 1908 joined the Federation of Music Clubs. The "e" was added to the name in 1922 and the group has remained the Friday Musicale since that time.