How do they match: Music Directors and Composers

  • Conduct, direct, plan, and lead instrumental or vocal performances by musical artists or groups, such as orchestras, bands, choirs, and glee clubs; or create original works of music.

  • Assign and review staff work in such areas as scoring, arranging, and copying music, and vocal coaching.
  • Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.
  • Transcribe ideas for musical compositions into musical notation, using instruments, pen and paper, or computers.
  • Transcribe musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or to create a particular musical style.

  • Create musical compositions, arrangements or scores.
  • Study details of musical compositions.