Abstract: A portable music desk, including a cylindrical container for storing a length of flexible sheet material. The container has a outer tubular wall with an axially extending slot opening, and an internal winding mechanism for retracting the sheet material through the opening, and for allowing a desired length of the sheet material to extend from the slot opening in the outer tubular wall. A strut arrangement braces the sheet material in a flat and steady work position when the material is extended from the container means, so that the material acts as a back rest surface for a music sheet. A telescoping floor stand is adapted to engage the circumference of the container, and to support the container a desired height above a floor surface.