What can you do with a degree in music?

Music Degree

People study music for various reasons. Some want to be performing artists. Some want to work in the music or entertainment business. So what you can do actually depends on what you want to do.

If you want to be a performer, you hopefully have studied music performance and done well. But you still have a long way to go. As an individual (let's say an opera singer or violinist), you'll have to audition for parts with major companies or orchestras. If you're in a pop/rock band, you still have to sell yourself to prospective venues, agencies, or record companies. It's an uphill battle because there are literally tens of thousands of people out there trying to do the same thing.

If you want to work in the entertainment business, you should probably consider a masters degree. This gives you the credentials you need to impress a prospective employer. You can work in one of two main areas: producing or selling. Producing involves the actual creation of the work or obtaining of artists for agencies or record companies. Selling is the other end of the business, marketing your clients or their records to prospective buyers.

Whatever area you're interested in, use the resources of your music faculty! These people often know others in the field, can open doors for interviews, or help you get into a masters program at another university. The best faculty want their students to succeed after college, not just during.

Eventually, performers could end up playing in an orchestra, singing in an opera company, performing in night clubs as part of a stage band, or doing work in a recording studio. Musicians have one of the best unions in the world, so the pay scale is pretty good. In business you might become part of a mega-corporation (e.g. Disney), a production company, a sit-down theater company, or a record company.

Keep in mind that in the end, it's all work. The glamour and excitement wear off pretty quickly when you sit in an office all day every day, trying to sell the latest kazoo band to venues across the country. Likewise, spending 8 hours a day in a recording studio, sight reading charts for TV commercials, can get extremely tedious. So pick an area you think you'll love doing. And good luck.

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Teach music. That's about it. I'm not being sarcastic or a "smart alec", either.

I've got a music degree and I became a fireman.

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There area many degrees in music. Most schools will offer Music Industry degrees and soforth, but the chance of getting hired for a job you'd like to are minimal, sure you have to know your stuff, but you have to know your people too.

Other schools, like Full Sail near Orlando, offer associates degrees where you can obtain the knowledge and skills to get hired in the recording field, or the show production field. Also, they offer an entertainment business Bachelor's degree, which will give you more chance of getting hired than any other school's program because of Full Sail's reputation in the industry.

As for music history degrees, they are worthless, unless you run out of TP.

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A massive amount. Basically, with a straight-forward degree in music, you will (with a certain amount of work) be able to get almost any career in the music business. Eg - performance, composition, teaching, business work, production... basically any field. A degree in pure music will give you the widest options. However, if you're sure you want to go into a certain field, take a degree in music performance, music technology or the music business etc.

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Plenty! teach it, play it, listen to it, study more music, the sky's the limit! go on to study production, engineering, direction, etc...

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