| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Musician |
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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- Sing a cappella or with musical accompaniment.
- Interpret or modify music, applying knowledge of harmony, melody, rhythm, and voice production to individualize presentations and maintain audience interest.
- Sing as a soloist or as a member of a vocal group.
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| Music Director |
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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- Write musical scores for orchestras, bands, choral groups, or individual instrumentalists or vocalists, using knowledge of music theory and of instrumental and vocal capabilities.
- Collaborate with music librarians to ensure availability of scores.
- Engage services of composers to write scores.
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| Sound Engineer |
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
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- Separate instruments, vocals, and other sounds, and combine sounds later during the mixing or postproduction stage.
- Tear down equipment after event completion.
- Regulate volume level and sound quality during recording sessions, using control consoles.
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