ETHNMUS 5Music Around World
Ethnomusicology · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Overview of world’s musical traditions by selecting one or two case studies from each of nine musical world regions: Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and U.S. and Canada.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ETHNMUS 5
- ETHNMUS 144Special Topics in Iranian Music
- ETHNMUS 145Analyzing Rhythm in Persian Music
- ETHNMUS 163Theory, Practice, and Improvisation in Iranian Music
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.