The main purpose of this study is to understand the interest trend of music preference among youths as well as to analyse factors that influence the trend. Although qualitative method was used, this study utilized questioner for its data collecting technique. The collected data was analyzed to gather respondents’s point of views and answers concerning music that they like. This study conclude that music interest trend among youth is mostly to popular music. Although the music has taken the highest rank position, its supporters are not only listen to their main preference but also other musical styles. Youths’s tendency to choose popular music have been based on several factors such as, the objective value of the music, the capability of the music to represent conditions that are experienced by them, as well as musical meaning among the youths. Keywords: Music preference, popular music, youths

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap formulasi ritme lagu pada buku ajar Suzuki violin method vol 1. Metode yang digunakan adalah kajian theoretical dan analytical. Kajian theoretical menitikberatkan pada setiap objek yang berhubungan dengan struktur elemen musik, dalam hal ini adalah ritme pada lagu-lagu yang terdapat pada buku Suzuki Violin Method Vol. 1. Sementara kajian analytical fokus pada objek ritme sebagai sebagai usaha merekonstruksi mengapa dan bagaimana Shinichi Suzuki memilih dan menggunakan lagu lagu yang terdapat pada buku  Suzuki Violin Method Vol. 1 sebagai materi ajar. Hasil temuan menunjukan bahwa ritme pada buku Suzuki Violin Method Vol. 1 cenderung menggunakan keteraturan struktur ritme yang proporsional dan simetris

Berdasarkan Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia No. 81A Tahun 2013 tentang Implementasi Kurikulum 2013, maka sekolah dari tingkat Sekolah Dasar hingga Sekolah Menengah Tingkat Atas mulai memberlakukan kurikulum 2013. Kurikulum tematik  2013 untuk  Sekolah Dasar terdiri dari kompetensi inti dan kompetensi dasar. Pembelajaran seni khususnya seni musik termasuk dalam mata pelajaran Seni Budaya dan Prakarya (SBDP). Penelitian tentang implementasi pelajaran seni musik berdasarkan kurikulum tematik 2013 di sekolah dasar yang berada di kecamatan Sewon Bantul Yogyakarta bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pelaksanaan pengajaran pendidikan SBDP khususnya seni musik dan apakah hasil kompetensinya bisa tercapai. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif. Tujuh Sekolah Dasar diambil sebagai sampel populasi dari total duapuluh tiga Sekolah Dasar di Kecamatan Sewon, Bantul, Yogyakarta. Informasi informasi dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan kuesioner dan wawancara. Pengajaran SBDP seni musik yang diajarkan oleh guru kelas, hasilnya belum sesuai dengan capaian kompetensi pada kurikulum 2013. Hal ini antara lain disebabkan karena kurang adanya pelatihan atau diklat tentang pengajaran seni musik sekolah dasar bagi guru kelas dan guru pengampu SBDP tidak memiliki latar belakang pendidikan seni khususnya seni musik. Kendala dan kesulitan bisa diatasi antara lain dengan membuat metode atau modul pengajaran music untuk sekolah dasar, mengadakan workshop, seminar dan pelatihan seni musik.AbstractImplementation of Music Material Teaching Based on Thematic Curriculum 2013 in Elementary School in Sewon Bantul District, Yogyakarta. Based on the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia No. 81A of 2013 concerning the Implementation of the 2013 Curriculum, schools from Elementary to Senior High level began to apply the 2013 Curriculum. The 2013 thematic curriculum for Elementary School consists of core competencies and essential competencies. Learning art, especially music, is included in Cultural Arts and Crafts (SBDP). Research on the implementation of music lessons based on the 2013 thematic curriculum in several elementary schools in the Sewon district of Bantul Yogyakarta aimed to find out how SBDP education teaching, especially the art of music, and whether the competency result by achieved. This study used quantitative research methods. Seven out of twenty-three elementary schools were chosen as population samples in Sewon District, Bantul, Yogyakarta. Information was collected using questionnaires and interviews. The results of SBDP teaching of music art taught by classroom teachers are not following the competency achievements in the 2013 curriculum. The partly due to the lack of training or education and training on teaching music art for elementary school teachers, and SBDP teachers themselves do not have an art education background, especially music. This paper suggested solutions to overcome obstacles and difficulties by making methods or modules for teaching music at the elementary school level, holding workshops, seminars, or training in the art of musicKeywords: implementation; 2013 curriculum; music

In the past thirty one years, the Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta has contributed to the development of music in Indonesia as the agent of change to build the human resources in the field of Western music. However, there has been no attempt to establish a relationship to the alumni of Music Departmentto provide contributions for the development Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta. Therefore, this research aims to search the Alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta in the period time of 2002 until 2012 in order to get the profile of the alumni and also to get the feedback on the suitability of the curriculum in Music Department to the needs of the workforce. This research uses qualitative method with descriptive statistical approach. The data collected by simple random sampling with 61 respondents from the alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta which spread all over Indonesia. The result of this research revealed that the learning process in Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta is able to provide supplies competence to compete in workforce. According to the data most of alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta are music educators. As a suggestion to meet the work forcerequirement as music educators, there should be additional skill for students (soft skills) such as organizational skills,  leadership, oral communication and the experience in community empowerment.

AbstrakIndonesia memiliki kekayaan lagu rakyat yang beragam sesuai keberadaan suku-suku yang tersebar dari Sabang sampai Merauke. Warisan budaya yang tak ternilai ini tidak hanya perlu dilestarikan, tapi juga diberi langkah strategis agar dapat berkembang dan dikenal lebih jauh. Dalam konteks ini, O Ina Ni Keke, sebuah lagu rakyat dari Sulawesi Utara, telah menjadi repertoar standar orkestra yang mendunia. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui bagaimana komposisi struktur musikal yang diciptakan oleh Joko suprayitno untuk lagu sederhana khas lagu rakyat seperti O Ina Ni Keke mengubah lagu tersebut menjadi kelindan melodi, harmoni, tekstur, dan struktur elemen musikal lainnya dan pada akhirnya menjadi sebuah karya yang pernah dimainkan oleh Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan paparan deskriptif. Proses analisis menggunakan analisis teoretis musikologis atas bentukan struktur elemen musikal dalam aransemen lagu O Ina Ni Keke. Pendalaman proses analisis akan ditunjang oleh sumber-sumber tertulis seperti buku-buku komposisi musik dan juga notasi atau score hasil aransemen sebagai data pokok dalam proses analisis. Penelitian ini menemukan penggunaan variasi melodi kontrapungtal, penempatan melodi pokok di hampir semua instrumen musik yang memunculkan karakter bunyi yang berbeda-beda, dan penggunaan teknik pedal point.AbstractIndonesia has a wealth of folk songs that vary according to the existence of tribes that spread from Sabang to Merauke. This valueless cultural heritage should not only be preserved but also need strategic steps to strive for it to develop and be known further. From a folk song from North Sulawesi to a global standard orchestra repertoire. This study aims to find out how to composed the musical structure of simple songs typical of folk songs such as the song O Ina Ni Keke by Joko Suprayitno into a combination of melodies, harmonies, textures and other musical elements into a masterpiece that was once played by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra during a concert at the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. Simfonia Hall Jakarta in the framework of the Fundraising Concert for Palu & Donggala Tsunami Victims. This research uses qualitative research with descriptive exposure. The analysis process uses musicological theoretical analysis of the formation of musical elements in the arrangement of the song O Ina Ni Keke. The deepening of the analysis process will be supported by written sources such as music composition books and of course the notation or score of the arrangement as the main data in the analysis process. The results of the study found that the use of contrapuntal melody variations, the placement of the main melody in almost all instruments gave rise to different characters, and the use of the pedal point technique