Another music choice is useles
I'm going to have to disagree with you there but I guess it boils down to my personal playstyle. I'll just share my template with you and you can make your own decision, it is very effective for me:
120 Lore (110 real, +10 on jewels)
120 Taming (110 real, +10 on jewels)
120 Disco
100 Magery (65 real, +20 on jewels, +15 Tome of Lost Knowledge)
120 Music
120 Provo
103 Vet (75 real, +27 on jewels)
I keep my bard skills real to maximize what benefits I can from the masteries and I can further specialize my skills with different jewel sets/spellbooks. I can drop my taming skills down to real and increase med to give me some more mana regen if i'm not using a GD. My suit is max LRC and LMC with the rest in Luck, MR, MI, and Int with some other random stuff thrown in. I can play well in a group by changing out pets and masteries and I can swap out provo for peace if needed. If I was going to dump one of my bard skills I would definitely keep disco and drop provo and maybe add med.
I haven't hit all of the possibilities. But anyways, have fun with whatever you pick. This just happens to work great for me.