ETHNMUS M6AIntroduction to Global Musicianship
Ethnomusicology · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
(Same as Music M6A and Musicology M6A.) Course M6A is enforced requisite to M6B, which is enforced requisite to M6C. Students must receive grade of C– or better to proceed to next course in sequence. Introduction to global musicianship through in-depth exploration of basic musical elements through performance, aural skills, and active listening. Engages with melodic information represented in solfège, harmonic information in Nashville number system, and rhythmic information in both Western notation and digital audio workstation grid visualization.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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 M6A
- ETHNMUS M6BIntroduction to Musicianship
- ETHNMUS M6CIntroduction to Musicianship
- ETHNMUS 10AMusic Theory and Musicianship I
- 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 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
- ETHNMUS 183Study of Ethnomusicology
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 29 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.