MUSC 117Study and Conducting of Instrumental and Choral Literature
Music · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Study and practice of conducting both instrumental and choral repertoire. In addition to further development of conducting gestures, focus on score study techniques, rehearsal techniques, style, and interpretation as applied to choral and instrumental repertoire.
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
Requisite: course 116.
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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.
MUSC 117
- MUSC 116Introduction to Conducting
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 8 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MUSC 117
- MUSC C118AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C118BChoral Techniques and Methods
- MUSC C218AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C218BChoral Techniques and Methods
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.