ETHNMUS 10AMusic Theory and Musicianship I
Ethnomusicology · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Course 10A is enforced requisite to course 10B. Students must receive grade of C or better to proceed to next course in sequence. Basic technical terms of Western music and various non-Western musical cultures around the world; reading and writing Western music notation and some non-Western notational traditions; rhythm and intervals as they manifest themselves in distinct traditions; musical symbols, such as dynamics and articulation marks; vocabulary of ornamentations in Western and non-Western traditions; pitch organization systems of the world.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course M6A with grade of C or better.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ETHNMUS 10A
- ETHNMUS M6AIntroduction to Global Musicianship
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ETHNMUS 10A
- ETHNMUS 10BMusic Theory and Musicianship II
- ETHNMUS 20AMusical Cultures of World: Europe and Americas
- ETHNMUS M130Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- ETHNMUS 164World Music Composition
- ANTHRO M158Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- ETHNMUS 183Study of Ethnomusicology
- ETHNMUS 20BMusical Cultures of World: Africa and Near East
- GJ STDS M130Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- ETHNMUS 20CMusical Cultures of World: Asia
- ETHNMUS C156AMusic in China
- ETHNMUS 251Music of Indonesia
- ETHNMUS 252Seminar: Music of Mainland Southeast Asia
- ETHNMUS C256AMusic in China
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 23 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.