MUSC 20BMusic Theory II
Music · 3 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 20A with grade of C or better.
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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.
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MUSC 20B
- MUSC 20CMusic Theory III
- ETHNMUS 20AMusical Cultures of World: Europe and Americas
- ANTHRO M158Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- GJ STDS M130Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- ETHNMUS M130Culture of Jazz Aesthetics
- ETHNMUS 164World Music Composition
- ETHNMUS 20BMusical Cultures of World: Africa and Near East
- ETHNMUS 183Study of Ethnomusicology
- ETHNMUS C156AMusic in China
- MUSC 66Composition Studio
- MUSC 110BMusicality and Creativity in Childhood
- MUSC 110CComparative Study of Choral Music Education
- MUSC 110DComparative Study of Instrumental Music Education
- MUSC 111AMusic Theory through Improvisation
- MUSC 111BMusic Creation and Analysis through Technology
- MUSC 111CArranging Music for Educational Settings
- MUSC 116Introduction to Conducting
- MUSC 117Study and Conducting of Instrumental and Choral Literature
- MUSC C118AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C118BChoral Techniques and Methods
- MUSC C218AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C218BChoral Techniques and Methods
- MUSC 119Jazz and Technology Pedagogy
- MUSC 121Special Topics in 20th-Century Music
- MUSC 122Speculative Music Theory
12 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 60 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.