I do not see an education in music composition as disqualifying, per se. I would be more curious about her background and work experience. If she's old enough to retire, when she started her career there were very few, if any, computer science majors offered, and probably no IT security majors.
I do not see an education in music composition as disqualifying, per se. I would be more curious about her background and work experience. If she's old enough to retire, when she started her career there were very few, if any, computer science majors offered, and probably no IT security majors.
I have my Bachelor's degree in musicology. Although I went back to school and got Master's degrees in Information Techology and Business Administration (as well as certificates in programming and database administration), I went into the software engineering field because, at the time, I was told that musicians use the same part of the brain as computer programmers, and that I'd be successful in either field. Been at it now for 30 years and haven't looked back.
I'm still grateful for my BA. I can still pick apart a Bach prelude and fugue, and enjoy it at the same time... :-)
In the middle ages, music was taught as a means of learning mathematics, because among other reasons of the computations necessary to study ancient Greek modes. One of the worst things to happen to music, tonally speaking, was Pythagoras' presumption that musical intervals were to be multiples of 3/2, rather than the mathematically complex but tonally pure intervals based on higher numbers, such as the 5/4 "major third" and 6/5 "minor third", not to mention the "blues third," 11/9, about halfway between. When syllables (ut, re, mi...) and later letters (A, B, C...) were substituted for numbers and intervals, music performance stopped being mathematical, but serious music composers and musicologists always know that math is the numerical expression of music, and music the aural expression of math.