music arranger
Code 2652.1.1
Music arrangers create arrangements for music after its creation by a composer. They interpret, adapt or rework a composition for other instruments or voices, or to another style. Music arrangers are experts in instruments and orchestration, harmony, polyphony and composition techniques.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- musical genres
- musical instruments
- musical theory
Skills and competences
- organise compositions
- develop musical ideas
- orchestrate music
- read musical score
- rewrite musical scores
- transpose music
Transversal competences
- write musical scores
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences