MUSCLG M6AIntroduction to Global Musicianship
Musicology · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
(Same as Ethnomusicology M6A and Music M6A.) Course M6A is enforced requisite to M6B, which is enforced requisite to M6C. Students must receive grade of C– or better to proceed to next course in sequence. Introduction to global musicianship through in-depth exploration of basic musical elements through performance, aural skills, and active listening. Engages with melodic information represented in solfège, harmonic information in Nashville number system, and rhythmic information in both Western notation and digital audio workstation grid visualization.
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 M6A
- MUSCLG M6BIntroduction to Musicianship
- MUSCLG M6CIntroduction to Musicianship
- MUSCLG 125CHistory of Western Music: Modern and Postmodern Era
- MUSCLG 125AHistory of Western Music: Era of Church and Patron
- MUSCLG 125BHistory of Western Music: Era of Empires and Marketplaces
- MUSCLG 126Musics, Cultures, and Their Interpretation
- MUSCLG 127Music, Sound, and Structure
- MUSCLG 128History of Popular Music
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.