Occupations in music

thumb|upright=1.3|Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composing at his desk, by [[Valentin Serov, 1898]]

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upright|thumb|British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran in 2023.

person who plays recorded music for an audience

musical instrument made up of a group of percussion instruments

Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science.

individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artist's music

person who directs a musical group during a performance

thumb|right|The troubadour Perdigon playing his fiddle

thumb|Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano thumb|Motion capture of two pianists' fingers playing the same piece (slow motion, no sound). thumb|'Humoresque (song)|Humoresque' by [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz, blues, and popular music, including rock and roll. Most pianists can, to an extent, easily play other keyboard instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta, and the organ.

A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition with a guitar, although this role has transmuted through different eras of popular music. Traditionally, these musicians would write and sing songs personal to them. Singer-songwriters often provide the sole musical accompaniment to an entire song. The piano is also an instrument of choice. thumb|300px|Bob Dylan with [[Joan Baez during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., 1963]] == Biog

thumb|Songwriting partners Rodgers and Hart working on a song in 1936 A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. A songwriter who mainly writes the lyrics for a song is referred to as a lyricist. Pressure from the music industry to produce popular hits means that commercial songwriting is often a collaborative process with tasks shared among multiple people. For example, a songwriter who excels

A lyricist is a writer who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include (but is not limited to) the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment.

thumb|right|250px|Guitar players in the city centre of Buenos Aires. A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both.

thumb|The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

thumb|upright=1.2|Action novelist Tom Clancy at a book signing. A significant part of Clancy's bibliography was provided by ghostwriters after market demand for books under Clancy's name exceeded his ability to produce them.

'''''' ( , , ), from ('chapel') and ('master'), literally 'master of the chapel choir', is a word of German origin that designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term has evolved considerably in its meaning and is today used for denoting the leader of a musical ensemble, often smaller ones used for TV, radio, and theatre.

engineer who operates recording, mixing, sound reproduction equipment

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thumb|upright=1.35|The Minstrels of Beverley. Woodcut of 16th-century English musicians. Left to right: pipe and tabor, fiddle, windcap instrument, lute, and shawm. A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. The term originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer who sang songs and played musical instruments.

An impresario (from Italian ) is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer.

thumb|right|200px|Senegalese griot, 1890 thumb|200px|A Hausa people|Hausa griot performs at [[Diffa, Niger, playing a (Xalam).]]

field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music

thumb|right|300px|A hand-written Sheet music|musical score for Act 2 of the [[opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, written in the 1820s. The score contains all the parts for the singers and the accompaniment parts and melodies for the orchestra.]] Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orchestration is the assignment of different instruments to play the different parts (e.g., melody, bas

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A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Many musical genres tend to be associated with at least one or more of these instruments.

singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in film

thumb|right|A cathedral organist in Lausanne Cathedral An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists. In addition, an organist may accompany congregational hymn-singing and play liturgical music.

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thumb|Roy Ayers playing keyboard and alto saxophone (2011) A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments, often but not exclusively at a professional level of proficiency.

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singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists

practice of performing in public places, for gratuities

musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties of the conductor are to interpret the score in a way that reflects the specific indications in that score, set the tempo, ensure correct entries by ensemble members, and "shape" the phrasing where appropriate. Conductors communicate with their musicians primarily through hand gestures, usually with the aid of a baton, and may use other gestures or sign

thumb|A bell-ringer at work in Palekh, Russia A bell-ringer is a person who rings a bell, usually a church bell, by means of a rope or other mechanism.

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profession inside a record label

company that licenses compositions, collects royalties and distributes them to the composers

director of music, for an orchestra, film, radio station, etc.

term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz

journalism genre

member of a band who sings the main solo vocal portions of a song

A '''''' (; from the French verb meaning 'to repeat, to go over, to rehearse') is an accompanist, tutor or coach of ballet dancers or opera singers. The feminine form is ''''''.

thumb|Trevor Pinnock at the harpsichord A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord. Harpsichordists may play as soloists, as accompanists, as chamber musicians, or as members of an orchestra, or some combination of these roles. Solo harpsichordists may play unaccompanied sonatas for harpsichord or concertos accompanied by orchestra. Accompanist harpsichordists might accompany singers or instrumentalists (e.g., a violinist or Baroque flute player), either playing works written for a voice (or an instrument) and harpsichord or an orchestral reduction of the orchestra parts. Chamber m

A preceptor (from Latin, "praecepto") is a teacher responsible for upholding a precept, meaning a certain law or tradition.

support personnel who travel with a band on tour

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women in music in different genres, eras, and all over the world

type of band that plays cover songs

jazz instrument and associated playing style

Berikaoba () is an improvised masqueraded folk theatre in Georgia, stemming from the pagan festivity of fertility and rebirth. The name is derived from a Common Kartvelian root ber (ბერ), meaning "a child". The scenes of Berikaoba range from those of explicitly erotic nature to political satire and social protest.

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thumb|right|325px|Azmari playing masenqo in a tejbeit, Lalibela, northern Ethiopia An Azmari (Amharic: አዝማሪ) is an entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian Highlands. They are comparable to medieval European minstrels, bards or West African griots.

person making executive decisions over artists of a record label

band that accompanies a leading artist; group of musicians who accompany an artist at a live performance or on a recording

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field in the arts sector that facilitates programming within cultural organizations

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