It is necessary to develop a music aptitude test instrument as students, basic music knowledge is not optimally developed yet. Due to the inavailability of such instruments in the music education department, this study saimed to design and develop music aptitude test. The tests in used to measure students skills in understanding basic musical skills. This study used experimental quantitative approach. The findings resulted in 40 test items covering 8 teaching goals and 35 indicators aligned to the Semester Learning Plan (RPS) of solfeggio class. Further, the future research will focus on music aptitude test in audio form for the students.
Singing activities are general activities that seem very easy. It could be said that anyone can sing. However, to be able to sing well and correctly seems to need to be learned. For Junior High Schools in Indonesia, singing activities are included in the teaching material of cultural arts sub music material. This study aims to “analyze how singing activities are taught in classes on learning Art and sub music material”. The approach of this research is interdisciplinary which involves music disciplines and music learning. The research method applied is interpretive qualitative. The research location is Semarang, by involving Semarang Junior High School Students and Teachers as the subject of research. Data collection techniques used in this research is observation, interviews, and documentation studies. The data validity technique is using data source triangulation. Data analysis techniques used in this research are interactive flow. The results showed that teachers taught singing, both in classes Vll, Vlll, and Vlll. Singing activity for class Vll focused on basic singing techniques. The eighth grade is focused on singing, whose vocals or singing techniques are more applied to singing local songs and Nusantara songs. Meanwhile, singing activity in class VIII is more focused on improvising any song. This study concludes that teachers always emphasize the use of western song singing models as a basic technique, regardless of the type of song used in the learning process.
Angklung learning strategies in SMP Negeri 13 Cirebon are very unique, teachers use not in accordance with their learning. The problem discussed in this paper is how the strategies are used by the trainer and what are the supporting and inhibiting factors. This research uses qualitative. The target of this research is angklung extracurricular learning strategy in SMP Negeri 13 Kota Cirebon. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, documentation, and triangulation techniques. The results showed that: (1) The trainer used a direct learning strategy; (2) supporting factors are facilities provided; (3) inhibiting factors, namely extracurricular schedules that collide with other extracurricular schedules. The strategy used is a direct learning strategy. students are more focused on the teacher with several methods, namely lectures, demonstrations, and drills. The media used are angklung instruments, keyboards, laptops, amps, and blackboards.
The regeneration of players, singers, and keroncong orchestra groups is happening in various regions in Indonesia until now. This condition indicates the process of inheritance of keroncong music between generations continue. This also happened in Bumijawa, Tegal Regency, which has the O.K Waseso. The problem discussed in this paper is how to preserve keroncong music carried out by O.K Waseso in Bumijawa, Tegal Regency. The research was conducted with qualitative methods. Data was collected using observation, interviews, and documentation. The data validity techniques were carried out by triangulation, and interactive model analysis. The results showed that the conservation efforts carried out by O.K Waseso for keroncong music were depicted through three activities, namely the protection, development, and utilization of keroncong music.
The song is one of the teaching media used by preschool teachers around the globe. Indonesian preschool teachers face a rising problem: the government regulates a standard curriculum where the educational song is compulsory. Yet, there is no concern to facilitate and fill in the absence of children's educational songs. This study aims to unveil the creative process of non-music education graduate teachers in composing educational songs as required by the curriculum. This study employs a qualitative design based on a case study of thirty-three teachers from eleven different preschools in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The researchers analyze the preschools' curriculum, teachers' interviews, field observations, and documentation. The findings show that teachers can use their creativity to create songs with educational messages projected in a collective poetry singing performance. Poetry singing allows students' aesthetic skills development through continuous song probe and response between teachers and students.
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