How do they match: Music Directors and Composers

  • Score Composer

  • Assign and review staff work in such areas as scoring, arranging, and copying music, and vocal coaching.
  • Collaborate with other colleagues, such as copyists, to complete final scores.
  • Consider such factors as ensemble size and abilities, availability of scores, and the need for musical variety, to select music to be performed.
  • Copy parts from scores for individual performers.
  • Fill in details of orchestral sketches, such as adding vocal parts to scores.
  • Rewrite original musical scores in different musical styles by changing rhythms, harmonies, or tempos.
  • Study scores to learn the music in detail, and to develop interpretations.
  • Study films or scripts to determine how musical scores can be used to create desired effects or moods.
  • Write musical scores for orchestras, bands, choral groups, or individual instrumentalists or vocalists, using knowledge of music theory and of instrumental and vocal capabilities.

  • Create musical compositions, arrangements or scores.