Copyist

What do Copyists do?

In the Music Industry, a Copyist creates the final, written music to use during a recording session. Traditionally, the composer or orchestrator would present the Copyist with a music score written in pencil. From this written score the Copyist would create a clean, computer-engraved copy using software such as Finale or Sibelius.

The Copyist is responsible for creating a computer generated copy of the score as well as the individual parts for each instrument, making sure everything is bound and well organized to avoid wasted time during the expensive recording session.

With the advent of computer sequencing software and composers that do not write music, copyists now also must be able to create score directly from MIDI sequences without having a written score for reference.

There are 922 music industry professionals with the job title Copyist on Music Jobs

Copyist jobs which have appeared on the Music Jobs jobs board:

Orchestra Librarian Billings, MT	06/08/11
Classical Music Data Entry San Diego, CA	06/09/10
Classical Music Data Entry (Part Time) San Diego, CA	02/14/10

Job description sources include (but are not limited to) imdb.com, skillset.org and wikipedia.