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Job Description
Write and transcribe musical scores.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 27-2041.04
Also Known As…
- Songwriter
- Music Producer
- Music Composer
- Music Arranger
- Jingle Writer
- Film Composer
- Creative Director
- Composer
- Song Writer
- Record Producer
- Musician
- Music Writer
- Music Orchestrator
- Music Adapter
- Digital Composer
- Copyist
- Conceptor
- Composer Teaching Artist
- Arranger
Tasks for “Music Composers and Arrangers”
- Fill in details of orchestral sketches, such as adding vocal parts to scores.
- Create original musical forms, or write within circumscribed musical forms such as sonatas, symphonies, or operas.
- Accept commissions to create music for special occasions.
- Transpose music from one voice or instrument to another to accommodate particular musicians.
- Arrange music composed by others, changing the music to achieve desired effects.
- Guide musicians during rehearsals, performances, or recording sessions.
- Collaborate with other colleagues, such as copyists, to complete final scores.
- Write music for commercial mediums, including advertising jingles or film soundtracks.
- Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.
- Copy parts from scores for individual performers.
- Score compositions so that they are consistent with instrumental and vocal capabilities such as ranges and keys, using knowledge of music theory.
- Use computers and synthesizers to compose, orchestrate, and arrange music.
- Write changes directly into compositions, or use computer software to make changes.
- Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.
- Rewrite original musical scores in different musical styles by changing rhythms, harmonies, or tempos.
- Apply elements of music theory to create musical and tonal structures, including harmonies and melodies.
- Transcribe ideas for musical compositions into musical notation, using instruments, pen and paper, or computers.
- Study films or scripts to determine how musical scores can be used to create desired effects or moods.
- Confer with producers and directors to define the nature and placement of film or television music.
- Write musical scores for orchestras, bands, choral groups, or individual instrumentalists or vocalists, using knowledge of music theory and of instrumental and vocal capabilities.
- Experiment with different sounds, and types and pieces of music, using synthesizers and computers as necessary to test and evaluate ideas.
- Study original pieces of music to become familiar with them prior to making any changes.
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