MUSC 166

Advanced Composition Studio

Music · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Limited to junior/senior music composition students. One-on-one composition lessons with assignments and compositions tailored to student progress and level of achievement. Lessons address counterpoint, voice-leading, harmonic and melodic construction, orchestration, form, texture, style, notation, and performance feasibility. May be repeated for credit.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 66 (6 units).

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MUSC 66

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MUSC 166

MUSC 66Composition Studio
- MUSC 20AMusic Theory I
- MUSC 20BMusic Theory II
  - MUSC 20AMusic Theory Ianother path to it
- MUSC 20CMusic Theory III
  - MUSC 20BMusic Theory IIanother path to it
- MUSC 21AProject Approach to Music Theory I

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 12 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 166

MUSC 169Capstone Composition Recital

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.