MUSC 20B

Music Theory II

Music · 3 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Theory: diatonic harmony through secondary dominants and diminished sevenths; modulations to dominant and relative keys; writing of four-part chorales; style composition in baroque dance forms; introduction to figured bass notation.

P/NP or 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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 20A with grade of C or better.

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grade C or better in

MUSC 20A

Requires

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

MUSC 20B

MUSC 20AMusic Theory I

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MUSC 20B

MUSC 20CMusic Theory III
- MUSC 66Composition Studioanother path to it
- MUSC 110BMusicality and Creativity in Childhoodanother path to it
- ETHNMUS 20AMusical Cultures of World: Europe and Americas
  - ANTHRO M158Culture of Jazz Aesthetics