The Music Department at Cal State Northridge offers two degree programs at the undergraduate level. The Bachelor of Music degree is designed for students who are planning musical careers as performers, conductors, composers, arrangers, or college instructors. Combine their skills as a librarian with extensive knowledge of music.
Music librarians work in several different kinds of libraries.
Large music research libraries, such as those at the Library of Congress, employ a number of music librarians with comparatively specialized functions ranging from complex research problems for musicological scholars to the location of obscure or outofprint musical scores. Music librarians are also employed in small community libraries, radio and television stations, which have their own music libraries, and professional organizations such as the American Society of Composers, large orchestras, music publishers, and large universities and colleges. A Music Journalist is expected to be knowledgeable about the field of music being covered. As a Music Journalist reviewing concerts or acts, the individual, prior to the event, may have much of the background story developed and written. After the show, the Journalist writes a review of the actual performance.