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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Native South American traditional music and its role in indigenous societies. Topics include relationship between speech and song, use of music by shamans, musical structures, and use of indigenous music in creating nationalist and popular music styles. Letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; discussion, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, seven hours. Course 10A is requisite to 10B, which is requisite to 10C. Limited to Ethnomusicology and World Arts and Cultures majors. Introduction to and participation in musical systems of selected world cultures through aural and written notations, vocal and instrumental skills, melodic and rhythmic dictation, improvisation, and composition. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. History of ethnic and art music in Brazil, with some reference to Portuguese antecedents.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of history and characteristics of American popular music and its relationship to American culture, with emphasis on 20th-century popular music and its major composers, including comparison between traditional pre-1950 popular music and trends in post-1950 popular music. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Examination of historical and stylistic development of rock from the 1950s to the present, with attention to its sociocultural and political impact on American society and beyond. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, four hours; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course 10C. Course 11A is requisite to 11B, which is requisite to 11C. Limited to Ethnomusicology majors. Students must receive grade of C or better to proceed to next course. Advanced study and analysis of musical systems and aesthetic concepts from selected world cultures through aural and written notations, vocal and instrumental skills, melodic and rhythmic dictation, improvisation, and composition. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to jazz; its historical background and its development in the U.S.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of assimilation and retention of jazz from the U.S. in various countries, with particular emphasis on cultural and social features which form the basis for new jazz-ethnic music blends.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; outside study, four hours. Examination of various aspects of jazz composition. Differentiation between improvisation and notated composition, as well as between composition and arranging, and introduction to basic arranging concepts. Letter grading. 125A. Early Jazz to Swing Era; 125B. Bebop to Avant-garde; 125C. Jazz since the Sixties.
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2.00 Credits
Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course 129C. Study and practice of skills used in arranging and orchestrating music in jazz idiom. Students create and orchestrate their own arrangements. Study of specific instruments and their unique use and application in jazz (jazz notation and terminology, transposition, woodwind doublings, brass mutes, etc.). Writing for smaller ensembles, culminating with arrangements to be read by one UCLA Jazz Combo. Letter grading.
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