How do they match: Music Directors and Composers

  • Music Directors and Composers

  • Music Adapter
  • Music Arranger
  • Music Arts Director
  • Music Composer
  • Music Copyist
  • Music Director
  • Music Instructor
  • Music Manager
  • Music Minister
  • Music Ministries Director
  • Music Orchestrator
  • Music Pastor
  • Music Producer
  • Music Supervisor
  • Music Teacher
  • Music Writer
  • Musician
  • Church Musician
  • Liturgical Music Director

  • 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.

  • Apply elements of music theory to create musical and tonal structures, including harmonies and melodies.
  • Arrange music composed by others, changing the music to achieve desired effects.
  • Assign and review staff work in such areas as scoring, arranging, and copying music, and vocal coaching.
  • Audition and select performers for musical presentations.
  • Confer with producers and directors to define the nature and placement of film or television music.
  • Consider such factors as ensemble size and abilities, availability of scores, and the need for musical variety, to select music to be performed.
  • Create original musical forms, or write within circumscribed musical forms such as sonatas, symphonies, or operas.
  • Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.
  • Experiment with different sounds, and types and pieces of music, using synthesizers and computers as necessary to test and evaluate ideas.
  • Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.
  • Produce recordings of music.
  • Rewrite original musical scores in different musical styles by changing rhythms, harmonies, or tempos.
  • Stay abreast of the latest trends in music and music technology.
  • Study films or scripts to determine how musical scores can be used to create desired effects or moods.
  • Study scores to learn the music in detail, and to develop interpretations.
  • Transcribe musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or to create a particular musical style.
  • Transcribe ideas for musical compositions into musical notation, using instruments, pen and paper, or computers.
  • Transpose music from one voice or instrument to another to accommodate particular musicians.
  • Use gestures to shape the music being played, communicating desired tempo, phrasing, tone, color, pitch, volume, and other performance aspects.
  • Write music for commercial mediums, including advertising jingles or film soundtracks.
  • Write musical scores for orchestras, bands, choral groups, or individual instrumentalists or vocalists, using knowledge of music theory and of instrumental and vocal capabilities.

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