ABSTRACT

The purpose of the college education is traditionally considered as thesearch for truth. As employment becomes a important issues of the day,however, music education at collegiate school cannot help adopting tomeet the demands of reality, finding a job.Profession in music performance are highly competitive and specialized.Solo careers are extremely rare, while careers in chamber music andorchestra playing are more attainable. But, music academia does notnecessarily provide supportive and specialized training which arevocationally required for its future graduates.The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of collegiate·schools of music and performance career specialities of solo, chamber and orchestra in terms of career steps, requirement, and work environments.Then, new educational strategies for the profession would be proposed,which incorporates vocational education and counseling, a career decision after two years and specialized training for the remainder.It is hoped that this result could promote active discussion about theprograms of collegiate schools of music in order to satisfy two goals ofall-round education and employment.

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