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Career Details :: Music Arrangers and Orchestrators
Description
Write and transcribe musical scores.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Composes musical scores for orchestra, band, choral group, or individual instrumentalist or vocalist, using knowledge of music theory and instrumental and vocal capabilities.
- Transposes music from one voice or instrument to another to accommodate particular musician in musical group.
- Transcribes musical parts from score written by arranger or orchestrator for each instrument or voice, using knowledge of music composition.
- Copies parts from score for individual performers.
- Determines voice, instrument, harmonic structure, rhythm, tempo, and tone balance to achieve desired effect.
- Adapts musical composition for orchestra, band, choral group, or individual to style for which it was not originally written.
Related Careers
- Actors
- Art Directors
- Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture
- Composers
- Music Directors
- Poets and Lyricists
- Singers
- Sketch Artists
- Stringed Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Talent Directors
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Thinking Creatively
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Objective or Subjective Information
- Indoors
- Sitting
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Church Music |  [ add ] |
| Composition | [ add ] |
| Composition/Film Scoring | [ add ] |
| Composition/Theory | [ add ] |
| Contemporary Writing/Production | [ add ] |
| Dance Accompanying | [ add ] |
| Euphonium | [ add ] |
| Film Scoring | [ add ] |
| General Music | [ add ] |
| Instrumental Music | [ add ] |
| Jazz Composition | [ add ] |
| Music | [ add ] |
| Music Composition | [ add ] |
| Music History/Theory | [ add ] |
| Music Synthesis | [ add ] |
| Music Technology | [ add ] |
| Music Theatre | [ add ] |
| Music Theory | [ add ] |
| Music Theory/Composition | [ add ] |
| Music Theory/History | [ add ] |
| Music/Applied Music Education | [ add ] |
| Music/Business | [ add ] |
| Music/Elective Studies in Business | [ add ] |
| Music/Instrumental | [ add ] |
| Music/Keyboard | [ add ] |
| Music/Language | [ add ] |
| Music/Sound Recording | [ add ] |
| Music/Technology | [ add ] |
| Music/Theatre | [ add ] |
| Music/Voice | [ add ] |
| Musical Arts | [ add ] |
| Musical Studies | [ add ] |
| Musical Theatre | [ add ] |
| Orchestral Music | [ add ] |
| Piano Accompanying | [ add ] |
| Professional Music | [ add ] |
| Songwriting | [ add ] |
| Theatre/Music | [ add ] |
| Theoretical Studies | [ add ] |
| Theory | [ add ] |
| Theory/Composition | [ add ] |
| Traditional Composition | [ add ] |
Institutions Offering Related Majors
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