MUSC 66

Composition Studio

Music · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Limited to Music Composition students and designed for sophomores. 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 twice 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 requisites: courses 20A, 20B, and 20C, or 21A, 21B, and 21C.

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Requires

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

MUSC 66

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

Unlocks

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

MUSC 66

MUSC 166Advanced Composition Studio
- MUSC 169Capstone Composition Recital

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.