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Career Details :: Music Directors

Description

Direct and conduct instrumental or vocal performances by musical groups, such as orchestras or choirs.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Directs group at rehearsals and live or recorded performances to achieve desired effects, such as tonal and harmonic balance dynamics, rhythm, and tempo.
• Issues assignments and reviews work of staff in such areas as scoring, arranging, and copying music and lyric and vocal coaching.
• Positions members within group to obtain balance among instrumental sections.
• Auditions and selects vocal and instrumental groups for musical presentations.
• Engages services of composer to write score.
• Transcribes musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to or create particular style for group.
• Selects vocal, instrumental, and recorded music suitable to type of performance requirements to accommodate ability of group.

Related Careers

• Actors
  
• Art Directors
  
• Composers
  
• Costume Attendants
  
• Music Arrangers and Orchestrators
  
• Musicians, Instrumental
  
• Poets and Lyricists
  
• Singers
  
• Talent Directors
  

Important Abilities

• Hearing Sensitivity
• Oral Expression
• Oral Comprehension
• Sound Localization
• Written Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
• Thinking Creatively
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
• Scheduling Work and Activities

Important Skills

• Coordination
  
• Monitoring
  
• Management of Personnel Resources
  
• Instructing
  
• Speaking
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Coordinate or Lead Others

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Bassoon	[ add ]
Brass	[ add ]
Cello	[ add ]
Choral Conducting	[ add ]
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Clarinet	[ add ]
Classical Guitar	[ add ]
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Dance Accompanying	[ add ]
Directing	[ add ]
Double Bass	[ add ]
Ethnomusicology	[ add ]
Euphonium	[ add ]
Flute	[ add ]
French Horn	[ add ]
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Harp	[ add ]
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Historical Performance	[ add ]
Instrumental Music	[ add ]
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Jazz	[ add ]
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