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Create musical compositions, arrangements or scores

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Part of Create artistic designs or performances, under the O*NET work activity group Thinking Creatively. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 16 AI-assist, 0 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Apply elements of music theory to create musical and tonal structures, including harmonies and melodies.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Experiment with different sounds, and types and pieces of music, using synthesizers and computers as necessary to test and evaluate ideas.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Transcribe ideas for musical compositions into musical notation, using instruments, pen and paper, or computers.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Transpose music from one voice or instrument to another to accommodate particular musicians.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Fill in details of orchestral sketches, such as adding vocal parts to scores.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Write musical scores for orchestras, bands, choral groups, or individual instrumentalists or vocalists, using knowledge of music theory and of instrumental and vocal capabilities.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Rewrite original musical scores in different musical styles by changing rhythms, harmonies, or tempos.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Arrange music composed by others, changing the music to achieve desired effects.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Write music for commercial mediums, including advertising jingles or film soundtracks.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Copy parts from scores for individual performers.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Create original musical forms, or write within circumscribed musical forms such as sonatas, symphonies, or operas.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Transcribe musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or to create a particular musical style.AI-assist Music Directors and Composers
• Transpose music to alternate keys, or to fit individual styles or purposes.AI-assist Musicians and Singers
• Arrange and edit music to fit style and purpose.AI-assist Musicians and Singers