MUSCLG 200AIntroduction to Music Scholarship
Musicology · 6 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Designed for graduate musicology, ethnomusicology, and music students. Introduction to history of different fields of music scholarship (with strong focus on musicology) and to selected debates in those fields. Practical tools for research, logic and structure of arguments, evidence, critical thinking and critique, historiography, rhetoric and voice, and archival and ethnographic research. Introduction to practical written forms such as abstract, grant proposal, paper/book proposal, and review.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MUSCLG 200A
- MUSCLG M201Repertory and Analysis
- MUSCLG 246Audit Seminar: Analytical/Repertoire Topics
- MUSC M201Repertory and Analysis
- MUSCLG 251Audit Seminar: Theoretical Topics
- MUSCLG 256Audit Seminar: Historical Topics
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.