The MA/PhD in Ethnomusicology investigates music in cultural and social contexts. In preparing students for careers in studying global music communities, our program assists students in understanding music as social practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students are introduced to the intellectual history of the field and its paradigmatic shifts, and research methodology in preparation for ethnographic fieldwork. Our ethnomusicology program seeks to prepare students for careers in the academy, public sector, the music industry, and/or cultural heritage policy-making. We also offer seminars in select global music cultures as well as topics, which examine music as related to gender, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, aesthetics, and musical practice.
Ethnomusicology
Master of Arts / PhD
Global Music
Cultures
✨ Happy Holidays from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! ✨
From our campus to your home, we wish you a season filled with joy and music. 🎶
Enjoy the Scope Saxophone Quartet 🎷 performing an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite (Russian Dance).
🙌 Huge thanks to our amazing quartet:
🎵 Mathew Harget (soprano)
🎵 Austin Hailey (alto)
🎵 Olivia Phaneuf (tenor)
🎵 Daniel Reyes-Velarde (baritone)
#HappyHolidays #ThisisUCLAmusic #NutcrackerSuite #SaxophoneQuartet #HolidayVibes #ucla
✨ Happy Holidays from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! ✨
From our campus to your home, we wish you a season filled with joy and music. 🎶
Enjoy the Scope Saxophone Quartet 🎷 performing an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite (Russian Dance).
🙌 Huge thanks to our amazing quartet:
🎵 Mathew Harget (soprano)
🎵 Austin Hailey (alto)
🎵 Olivia Phaneuf (tenor)
🎵 Daniel Reyes-Velarde (baritone)
#HappyHolidays #ThisisUCLAmusic #NutcrackerSuite #SaxophoneQuartet #HolidayVibes #ucla
🎹🌙 Happy Birthday to Frank Sinatra! We are pleased that his legendary Bösendorfer piano has found a new home at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This iconic instrument, rich with musical history, will now inspire and elevate our students as they carry forward its timeless legacy. Enjoy this rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon,” a Sinatra standard by Hugo Nguyen (vocals) and Miles Lennox (on the Bösendorfer 275).
Enjoy the preview, and catch the whole video on Youtube. Link in bio.
A heartfelt thank you to the Sinatra family for their generosity and for paving the way for future generations of UCLA musicians to dream big and perform boldly. 💙✨
#ThisisUCLAmusic #HappyBirthdayFrank #SinatraLegacy #UCLA
🎹🌙 Happy Birthday to Frank Sinatra! We are pleased that his legendary Bösendorfer piano has found a new home at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This iconic instrument, rich with musical history, will now inspire and elevate our students as they carry forward its timeless legacy. Enjoy this rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon,” a Sinatra standard by Hugo Nguyen (vocals) and Miles Lennox (on the Bösendorfer 275).
Enjoy the preview, and catch the whole video on Youtube. Link in bio.
A heartfelt thank you to the Sinatra family for their generosity and for paving the way for future generations of UCLA musicians to dream big and perform boldly. 💙✨
#ThisisUCLAmusic #HappyBirthdayFrank #SinatraLegacy #UCLA
🎹✨ A timeless treasure arrives at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! Nancy and Tina Sinatra have begun the process of gifting the school of music an incredible piece of music history: Frank Sinatra`s Bösendorfer grand piano, originally given to him by composer and collaborator Jimmy Van Heusen.
On December 4, Tina Sinatra arrived to see the piano brought out of storage since 1998. Our own piano faculty David Kaplan was on hand to test out the venerable grand, and we are pleased to share that its sound is as majestic as its legacy. 🎶
Watch the video of the piano’s arrival! Link in bio.
#ThisisUCLAmusic #HappyBirthdayFrank #SinatraLegacy #UCLA
🎹✨ A timeless treasure arrives at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! Nancy and Tina Sinatra have begun the process of gifting the school of music an incredible piece of music history: Frank Sinatra`s Bösendorfer grand piano, originally given to him by composer and collaborator Jimmy Van Heusen.
On December 4, Tina Sinatra arrived to see the piano brought out of storage since 1998. Our own piano faculty David Kaplan was on hand to test out the venerable grand, and we are pleased to share that its sound is as majestic as its legacy. 🎶
Watch the video of the piano’s arrival! Link in bio.
#ThisisUCLAmusic #HappyBirthdayFrank #SinatraLegacy #UCLA
Alumni Shoutout! Jake Heggie (BM 1984, MA 2005) was named Composer of the Year and Angel Blue (MM 2008) was named Vocalist of the Year by Musical America Worldwide Awards. Congratulations on a stellar 2024!
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Alumni Shoutout! Jake Heggie (BM 1984, MA 2005) was named Composer of the Year and Angel Blue (MM 2008) was named Vocalist of the Year by Musical America Worldwide Awards. Congratulations on a stellar 2024!
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Are you an alum with a story? DM us.
David Kaplan`s 2024 album "New Dances of the League of David" has been named a top classical album of 2024 by Textura Magazine (instrumental solo category). "A more fascinating and original treatment of Robert Schumann`s music," writes Textura magazine, "would be hard to imagine." Combining Schumann`s Davidsbündlertänze with commissions from composers responding to Schumann`s 1830 work, makes it "a riveting portrait in 28 parts."
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Available for purchase, and streaming on all major platforms.
David Kaplan`s 2024 album "New Dances of the League of David" has been named a top classical album of 2024 by Textura Magazine (instrumental solo category). "A more fascinating and original treatment of Robert Schumann`s music," writes Textura magazine, "would be hard to imagine." Combining Schumann`s Davidsbündlertänze with commissions from composers responding to Schumann`s 1830 work, makes it "a riveting portrait in 28 parts."
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Available for purchase, and streaming on all major platforms.
Step into Imagination Hall! The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has just opened 49 newly renovated practice rooms. Read about the new acoustical design, the generous gift from Herb Alpert that made it possible, and see video tour of the space and students using the rooms.
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Step into Imagination Hall! The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has just opened 49 newly renovated practice rooms. Read about the new acoustical design, the generous gift from Herb Alpert that made it possible, and see video tour of the space and students using the rooms.
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Textura Magazine just named "Serenade with a Dandelion" one of the top twenty classical albums (quartet, ensemble or orchestral category). The 4 disc set was the vision of Movses Pogossian and Varty Manouelian and features UCLA faculty Jan Berry Baker and Che-Yen Chen. Textura praised the compilation as "extremely accessible" and "a stunning act of curation... [that] captures the incredible richness of Armenian music, past and present."
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Available for purchase and streaming on all major platforms.
Textura Magazine just named "Serenade with a Dandelion" one of the top twenty classical albums (quartet, ensemble or orchestral category). The 4 disc set was the vision of Movses Pogossian and Varty Manouelian and features UCLA faculty Jan Berry Baker and Che-Yen Chen. Textura praised the compilation as "extremely accessible" and "a stunning act of curation... [that] captures the incredible richness of Armenian music, past and present."
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Available for purchase and streaming on all major platforms.
Fivemind Reeds joins the UCLA Wind Ensemble for an eclectic concert featuring works by Charles Ives, Clara Schumann, David Biedenbender, Leonard Bernstein, Gustov Holst, Arnold Schoenberg and more.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 8:00 PM
SCHOENBERG HALL
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#ThisIsUCLAMusic
Fivemind Reeds joins the UCLA Wind Ensemble for an eclectic concert featuring works by Charles Ives, Clara Schumann, David Biedenbender, Leonard Bernstein, Gustov Holst, Arnold Schoenberg and more.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 8:00 PM
SCHOENBERG HALL
link in bio
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#ThisIsUCLAMusic
David Castañeda
“I enjoyed the connections that I made with my colleagues who have now become family, seeing my approach as a researcher develop substantially in such a short amount of time, and most of all the opportunity to grow as an instructor and educator.” – David Castañeda Ph.D. ’21 | Ethnomusicology
A stream of high-profile artists and scholars from around the world have energized and inspired our students, helping to transform their educational experience. Among them are J.H. Kwabena Nketia, considered Africa’s premier musicologist/ethnomusicologist; Akin Euba, a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist; MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld, an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea; Judith Becker, professor emerita of ethnomusicology, University of Michigan; Mark Slobin, the author or editor of books on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, and ethnomusicology theory; Chano Dominguez, award-winning Spanish-born pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and Hossein Omoumi, a scholar and teacher of Persian traditional music, among others.
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