<p>(Same as Global Jazz Studies M103, Music M103, and Musicology M103.) Seminar, four hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to school of music majors. Faculty and students make music together in different modes. Students learn certain repertoire, refine it, and bring it to concert performance. Students critically engage musical literacies and notion of social contract that forms basis of musical notation. Drawing from American music folk game traditions, highlights complex history of this country and way in which entire body is used as resource when instruments are unavailable. Letter grading.</p>

Ethnomusicology

The school cultivates models for musical studies that integrate exemplary scholarship and practices, and engage through music with diverse communities on campus, throughout Los Angeles, and beyond.

Herb Alpert School of Music

Ethnomusicology involves the study of all kinds of music from all over the world, using a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

General Catalog

Creating Musical Community

ETHNMUS M103

4 units