GJ STDS 125Jazz Arranging and Orchestration
Global Jazz Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Global Jazz Studies majors. Study of specific instruments and their unique use and application in jazz (jazz notation and terminology, transposition, woodwind doublings, brass mutes, etc.). Analysis of different writing techniques and approaches that distinguish different sub-styles of jazz from one another. Assignments focus on writing for medium and large ensembles, with final project of arrangement to be read by UCLA Jazz Orchestra.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.