| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Musician |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
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- Teach music for specific instruments.
- Research particular roles to find out more about a character, or the time and place in which a piece is set.
- Play from memory or by following scores.
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| Music Director |
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- 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.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
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- Assign and review staff work in such areas as scoring, arranging, and copying music, and vocal coaching.
- Plan and implement fund-raising and promotional activities.
- Create original musical forms, or write within circumscribed musical forms such as sonatas, symphonies, or operas.
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| Sound Engineer |
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
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- Synchronize and equalize prerecorded dialogue, music, and sound effects with visual action of motion pictures or television productions, using control consoles.
- Separate instruments, vocals, and other sounds, and combine sounds later during the mixing or postproduction stage.
- Keep logs of recordings.
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