Music directors and composers held about 48,100 jobs in 2020. The largest employers of music directors and composers were as follows:Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations - 70%Self-employed workers - 20%Performing arts companies -... ... 
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Academic Programs of Interest for Music Directors and Composers
    Italian
    
    Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the...
    
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    Jazz Studies
    
    Jazz is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out...
    
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    Music
    
    is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history...
    
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    Music Management
    
    Music Management refers to the business of managing music acts. Chiefly, this involves acting as the talent manager to the artists, and negotiating with record labels, music...
    
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    Musical Theater
    
    Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece " humor, pathos, love, anger " as...
    
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    Piano
    
    The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, film, television, and most other complex western musical genres. Since a large number of composers are...
    
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