There are many career options to choose from for a professional musician. There are professional musicians that work specifically for churches, music educations, music therapy, music performing, composing or for a recording industry .Out of many to choose from, I decided to do research on the job being a professional musician as part of a symphony orchestra and a specific goal is to become the principal player the section. One of the reasons I’ve decided to have professional musician as my career option is because I’ve been preparing most to have this career as my job. I have been playing the violin for almost 10years and ever since I started the violin, I’ve always been participating in some kind of music program. I have played in 6 different youth symphony orchestras, performed as a soloist ,and have played in several chamber music ensembles ( consist of 4string players). I’ve also experienced being a principal and a concert master in an orchestra .I think these were very good experiences or assessments I’ve taken that have helped and prepared me to become a professional musician if I choose to be one.
To begin with explaining my job description, I want to first explain briefly what a “symphony orchestra” is. A simple “orchestra” is a big instrumental ensemble that holds sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. This term “orchestra” came from the name of an area in front of an ancient Greek stage used for Greek chorus. At that time, an orchestra only consisted of an average about fifty musicians or fewer. This type of small-sized orchestra is called a “chamber orchestra”. As number of musician grew throughout history, chamber orchestras became larger and turned into a full-si...
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... there are years of practice and hard work. I’ve learned that if you want to be a good musician and a principal player, you need more than just having the desire. I would have to take act and put in the time for music. And as a musician I definitely would have to meet many new people who I don’t have anything in common with, so I would need to have skills like communication skills and not just being able to play .I also thought by doing this research “music”, like other art formulas can unite will people from all directions of life, no matter their language or race since music speaks people on an emotional level. Everyone is familiar with what it is to feel, and a professional musician would have the ability of being able to help total strangers go through and recognize their own emotional states and problems through music. Either way they would thank you for it.
Due to the loose terminology of the eighteenth century, symphonies and suites were sometimes called overtures (Peyser, 1986). The slow-fast-slow alternation of tempos foreshadowed the order of movements in the Classical symphony, lacking only the menuetto.... ... middle of paper ... ... Kenosha, WI: G. Leblanc. Garofalo, R. J. & Co., Inc. (1992) Guides to Band Masterworks; Teacher Manual.
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