UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

 
2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
(310) 206-3033 (tel)
(310) 206-4738 (fax)
 
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Undergraduate Program/World Music

 
 

Performance/Composition Emphasis

(Effective Fall 2007)

 
 

 

   
 
Faculty Emphasis Advisors
   
 

Münir Beken, Assistant Professor
Cheryl L. Keyes, Associate Professor
Steve Loza, Professor
James Newton, Visiting Professor

GE Requirements  
Schedule of Classes
Deadlines
  Recitals  
 
Plan of Study
Statement of Completion  
  Freshman Sample Plan of Study (pdf)
Transfer Sample Plan of Study (pdf)
   
       
 
GPA requirement
   
 

Students who select this emphasis must have a 3.5 grade-point average in departmental lower division core courses and a cumulative 3.00 GPA at the time of application.

 

   
Capstone (final project requirement)

Students must fulfill a final project requirement (capstone) either through a public recital (performance) or major composition. Performers and composers must enroll in Ethnomusicology 186. Performers must pass a recital permission jury, presenting excerpts from their recital programs in front of two faculty members, before they are allowed to stage their recitals. (See the "Statement of Completion" link above).

 

 
Degree Requirements
   
 

CORE COURSES
Lower Division Core Course Units (57)

Units

 
 

World Music Theory (10A/B/C)

15

 
 

World Music Systems and Structures (11A/B/C)

15

 
 

Musical Cultures of the World (20A/B/C)

15

 
 

World Music Performance Ensembles (91A-91Z) or
Private Instruction (92) (6 2-unit courses)

12

 
 

Upper Division Core Course Units (20)

   
 

Sociology of Music (175) OR Anthropology of Music (181)

4

 
 

Study of Ethnomusicology (183)

4

 
 

World Music Performance Ensembles 161A-161Z or
Private Instruction (162)

12

 
 

TOTAL CORE COURSE UNITS

77

 
       
 

PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION EMPHASIS COURSES

   
 

Jazz Orchestration (126 ABC)

6

 
 

Jazz Keyboard Harmony (127ABC)

6

 
 

Jazz Theory and Improvisation (129 ABC)

6

 
 

World Music Composition (164)

4

 
 

Senior Recital or Project (186)

1

 
       
 

Elective from Another Department
Electronic Music Composition. Music (C176)

4

 
       
 

TOTAL EMPHASIS UNITS

 

27

 
 

TOTAL UNITS FOR MAJOR

 

104

 
 

Minimum School of the Arts and Architecture Requirements
(Writing I and II, Foreign Language, Quantitative Reasoning, GE, and 12 units of upper division non-major courses)

 

77-79 units

 
 

Minimum Number of units required for Bachelor of Arts
(World Music Concentration)

 

186