THE CONCEPT OF MUSIC ART ACTIVITIES IS LEARNING

TO INCREASE THE CREATIVITY OF STUDENTS IN

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Anis Muzkiyah1

1. 2321087, PGMI Seni Musik B

anismuzkiyah@mhs.uingusdur.ac.id

Abstract
Education is a person's attempt to improve their knowledge and skills so that they can live longer. A person's problem-
solving skills relate to their level of creativity. Creative learners are always looking for new ways to solve the
problems they are facing. The art of music can give learners the ability to express themselves, to build their personality
through music, making it easier for them to express their feelings. This study used a type of literature study known
as a literature review. The narrative review model identifies the researcher's writing about the research subject.
The art of music can teach discipline, tolerance, socialization, and democratic attitudes, which also have an impact
on students' feelings toward their environment. At the elementary school level, the art of music encourages students
to play and learn. One of the goals of music art education in elementary schools is to encourage learners to express
thoughts and feelings through elements of beauty such as melody, rhythm, and harmony. Music art activities give
learners the ability to think creatively and enable them to create according to their personal needs. The
development of students' creativity through musical activities is very important so that students can ultimately turn
ideas into problem solutions.

Keywords : music, creativity, learning, elementary school

INTRODUCTION
Education is an effort to improve the
knowledge and skills of individuals to maintain
their lives. A person is considered educated if he
has forged a level and is considered to have
mastered a knowledge or skill. In education, an
individual must have knowledge and skills that
are by their interests and talents. There are many
ways to pursue education not only through formal
means but also through non-formal methods such
as course institutions or others. Education is very
important to support the survival of an individual
so that they can survive outwardly and inwardly.
Therefore, throughout the world education is a top
priority that can assess the prosperity of a country.
In Indonesia itself, education has been regulated
in the preamble of the 1945 Constitution’s fourth
paragraph which indicates that the Indonesian
state has a national goal of educating the nation.
At present, education does not only focus on the
thinking ability of students but also the skills of
students. To strive to improve education in
Indonesia, the Indonesian Ministry of Education
has several times changed the curriculum system
by considering many factors. One of these efforts
is to concentrate on character building to develop
human resources(Nurhuda et al., 2022). Education
today is expected to produce human resources
who have strong communication and
collaboration skills, experts in using technology,
creative and innovative thinking skills, and the
ability to solve problems(Andrian &; Rusman,
2019). Therefore, the current curriculum applies
learning that makes students have knowledge
equipped with skills to prepare a generation that
can develop and prosper the Indonesian state.
The learning process is systematic,
complex, and structured (Pratiwi et al., 2021).
Learning is a teaching and learning activity that
aims to convey knowledge from teachers or
educators to students. The development of
education through increasing human resources is
carried out, one of which is in educational
institutions, namely schools, and colleges. This is
because schools are effective places to carry out
learning and shape student behavior to be by the
norms of life (Dute, 2021). However, learning is
not only about knowledge but also about skills
that aim to hone the talents and interests, and
creativity of students. Remembering students'
skills is needed
to support students' thinking skills so that they can
determine the direction of future goals that suit
them.
A person's problem-solving skills are
related to the creativity of the person. Students
who can think creatively will always look for
many ways to solve problems related to
themselves. Creativity is the ability to find various
ways of solving problems faced by students in
learning situations based on the behavior of
students to face unavoidable changes in the
learning process of students(Teol et al., n.d.). At
the elementary school level, students' creativity is
developed through fun activities that can hone
their skills. Creative individuals or groups are
always needed in the environment in which they
live because they can create continuous
change(Hasanah &; Suyadi, 2020). Paying
attention to the growth and development of
students of all potentials, be it the talents,
interests, and creativity of students is certainly
very important so that they can grow well(HUDA
&; MUNASTIWI, 2020). Preparing the potential
of talent and creativity in students is a must that
needs to be considered by teachers, this is because
knowing the potential possessed by students will
make it capital in navigating the flow of their life
development, including capital in determining
careers or finding jobs that are by their potential
in the future(Cahyati, 2018). One way to increase
the creativity of students is through music and art
activities that are used for learning in a class.
There are various definitions of music
including that (1) music is the sound of something
that is captured by hearing, (2) music is a work of
art with all its main and supporting elements, and
(3) music is all sounds produced intentionally by a
person or group of individuals presented as music.
From some of these definitions, music is all
sounds produced by humans consciously that are
presented as music (Irawana &; Desyandri, 2019).
Music is one of the real and sound-shaped arts in
physics that has many benefits or advantages and
can stimulate the formation of human character
and ethics (Holy, 2019). Every individual has a
genre of music that can show a person's
characteristics or attitudes. Using music as a
means of increasing the creativity of students is
one effective way because with music they can
express themselves. This music art activity is
usually one of the learnings that are preferred by
students because it is fun and does not make
students bored. In carrying out music art learning,
an educator or teacher must pay
attention to many things so that students can
easily understand tone, rhythm, and so on because
with music art students can develop their skills
and work together.
According to (Irawana &; Desyandri,
2019) The art of music can provide the ability to
express themselves to students who aim to
develop their personality with music so that
participants will easily express their feelings. By
playing an active role in music activities,
participants can develop creativity, music will
help shape the character of student development,
build a sense of beauty, express expression, and
train honesty, discipline, and creative thinking. In
addition, according to (Yuni, 2017) Character
development in the implementation of music
learning is by the planning that has been prepared
by the teacher before carrying out music learning
activities. Character values that appear in
character education in the implementation of
music art learning in Class V SDN 011/XI Desa
Gedang Kota Sungai Full there are 14 character
values consisting of religious values, discipline,
tolerance, love to reading, honesty, creativity,
responsibility, independence, curiosity,
democratic, hard work, respect achievements,
social care, and friendly/communicative.
Based on this description, it appears that
efforts to increase student creativity get a more
important portion in learning music at school.
This is the purpose of national education, which is
to form people who believe and fear God
Almighty, are ethical (civilized and culturally
minded Indonesians), have reason (advanced,
intelligent enough, creative, innovative, and
responsible), have social communication skills
(orderly and law- aware, cooperative and
competitive, democratic), and have healthy bodies
so that they become independent humans. So it
can be concluded to increase the creativity of
students, music and art activities are one of the
effective ways that can be done in schools. Thus,
researchers will describe the concept of music art
activities to increase the creativity of students at
the elementary school level.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This research uses a type of literature
review research with a narrative review model.
Narrative review Identify What researchers write
about something object or subject of study. The
purpose is to summarize the existing scientific
literature and prepare reports Latest
Comprehensive on related information topic
certain (Haryana, 2021). The research method
used is in the form of qualitative research methods
with data sources used in the form of secondary
data obtained from several international journals,
articles, and previous research that have been
analyzed by the author related to the problems to
be studied in this study. Researchers use analytical
descriptive methods by collecting, identifying,
compiling, and analyzing various data found.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
1. Music activities at the elementary
school level
Music art activities are fun activities that
someone does to express or show their talents. In
musical activities, a person can freely choose the
genre of music he likes. Music activities in
elementary schools are usually contained in the
subjects of Arts and Culture and Crafts (SBdP)
which have an important role in the direct
formation of artistic competence and talent in
students(Bella &; Respati, 2021). The art of music
has a very important role in the motor
development of students because students have
the opportunity to hone their talents through fun
musical activities together. At the elementary
school level, music activities are carried out
simply by introducing the basics of music art to be
further developed at the junior and upper-middle
levels.
Music can shape the character of
discipline, tolerance, socialization, and democratic
attitudes which include sensitivity to the
environment towards students. It can be
concluded that music education plays an
important role to help the individual development
of students which will later have an impact on the
growth of their mind, mind, socialization, and
emotions in the future(Nadia et al., 2023). With
good character, students can have high creativity
so that they can face solving the problems they
face in various ways. Music education is an
educational process that can help students express
their ideas or ideas arising from environmental
symptoms by using musical elements so that the
formation of a musical work cannot be separated
from a sense of beauty(Irawana &; Desyandri,
2019). Through music activities, students are
guided to express their emotions through the
melodies they learn during learning activities. In
addition, with music
art activities, students can get to know more about
their regional culture because each region has a
different type of music.
The art of music at the elementary school
level directs students in essence to play and learn.
The role of music education in elementary schools
is to develop students to be able to express
thoughts and feelings through elements of beauty
that can be in the form of melody, rhythm, and
harmony(Restian et al., 2019). In the
implementation of music art activities through
learning, there are various ways that teachers can
do to teach music learning to students, namely by
learning about information, namely music as a
learning tool that can help students to more easily
remember learning experiences and information,
then attention, behavior, and atmosphere, namely
to increase student attention to learning that can
create a supportive learning atmosphere and train
students to build good community experiences,
and train and bring out personal expression in
students. It should also be noted that in the
implementation of music art activities in
elementary schools, it is necessary to consider
several things that can hinder the achievement of
goals and success in the implementation of art
learning activities, especially music in schools,
namely internal factors, namely physiological and
biological factors of students, then external factors
that affect music learning activities in schools,
which are related to teaching methods, the social
environment of the community, family, and
peers(UMM PGSD Team, 2017).
Music art activities have many benefits
for students, one of which is to develop and
improve the creativity of students. Music learning
in schools has the aim to: (1) cultivate a certain
level of artistic sense in each child through the
development of musical awareness, responses to
music, and the ability to express himself through
music, to enable a child to develop faith in the
next world; (2) improve the ability to listen to
music through intellectual and artistic means by
the culture of the nation; and 3) can be used as a
stepping stone to continue studies to a higher level
of music education (Fadhilah, 2023). With this
goal, it is hoped that students will be able to
participate in music and art activities with fun so
that they can easily develop their talents.
Music activities at the elementary level
are not too complicated as at the junior and upper
secondary levels. In particular, the objectives of
teaching music in elementary schools include:
1. Students can know the rhythm, feel rhythm
through musical experience and passion, have a
sense of rhythm motion, make rhythmic
movements, make simple rhythm patterns, and
read the notation of rhythm patterns correctly.
2. Students can have knowledge of melody, feel
melody through musical experience and passion,
have a sense of melody motion, create simple
melodic patterns, and read melodic notation
correctly.
3. Students can know harmony, feel harmony
through knowledge and passion for music, have a
sense of harmony motion, accompany simple
songs with simple harmony instruments, and read
harmony notation simply.
4. Students can know of song form/structure
through musical experience and passion, have
shadow-sensing song forms, and compose simple
songs.
5. Students can be knowledgeable about
expression, feel expression through musical
experience and passion, have a sense of various
levels of expression, and sing or play songs with a
high level of expression(Noviyanti et al., 2021).
Thus, providing opportunities for students
to create music, listen, and show musical arts that
suit each student personally can develop creativity
in the field of music. Children's involvement in
playing music can stimulate the senses and
improve their thinking in learning. In addition,
simple musical instruments can make children
more expressive, creative, and imaginative so that
music learning activities certainly cannot be
separated from singing, playing musical
instruments, listening to various pieces of music,
and understanding material.
2. Creativity in Music Art Learning in
Elementary School
Learning music is one of the means for
developing student creativity through fun game
activities. Fun music art activities can stimulate
the brain ability of learners so that they easily
create and explore themselves. Art education’s
purpose is not to nurture students to become
artists but to educate students to be creative. Art is
a game activity, with games being able to educate
students as best they can. Music is being able to
express things that cannot be implemented with
words or any other type of art. Philosophers also
stated that music would be more capable and
expressive of expressing feelings than
spoken/written language. This means that the
form of human feeling is much
closer to the musical forms of language. The
music itself includes not only instruments but also
vocals. This means that when someone knows
how to play music, they cannot be said to be a
musician if they do not understand vocal
techniques. Music is also the work of human
creation using the medium of sound to enjoy it.
Music comes in the form of unity of rhythm,
melody, harmony, form, style, and expression
(Sutikno, 2020).
Since music has many creative aspects,
increased creativity in music learning is essential
to achieve optimal musical knowledge,
comprehension, and mastery(Mirzayev, 2021).
For example, perception, visual, auditory,
anticipation, inductive-deductive thinking,
memory, concentration, and logic allow analogy
in music. Basic problems such as ways of thinking
or "new music" that offer ways to achieve certain
methods, and compositional goals become central
to musical activity. Students will practice
concentration, memory, and improvisation skills
to achieve these goals. Inviting children to
discover and use new musical instruments to
develop their creativity can help them make
music. For example, they make creative musical
instruments by using the tools that are around
them, such as bottles, barrels, buckets, and
bamboo, and play with their creativity(Ridwan et
al., 2020).
Conventional music learning, such as only
learning to sing songs from the beginning of class
to the end of the lesson or just learning music
theory without practicing it, will cause children to
be unable to understand music thoroughly, unable
to apply it in reality, and not discovering their
musical talent and potential (Yuwono &
Mirnawati, 2021). This also creates a difference
between the interests of students who use
elements of creativity in music learning with the
interests of students who are taught with
conventional methods. Students who use elements
of creativity can see or think extraordinary things,
blend seemingly irrelevant information, and come
up with new ideas or solutions. Students also love
having the freedom to speak.
Art education helps humans become sensitive,
communicative, creative, and reflective. Thus, art
education serves as a vehicle for constructive
humanization. Sensitive means sensitive to
various phenomena in human life and the
environment. The ability to communicate using
symbolic language to convey feelings, thoughts,
and ideas. Reflective, which means having the
ability to see one's strengths and weaknesses.
Creativity means
being able to process imaginative concepts and
ideas into works of art (Sutisna et al., 2020).
CONCLUSION
Music art activities in elementary schools
are needed to increase the creativity of learners
and develop their motor. It can be concluded that
music arts education has an important role in
helping the individual development of learners,
which has an impact on their cognitive, mental,
socialization, and democratic attitude
development, as well as sensitivity to their
environment. The objectives of music activities in
elementary schools include increasing music
knowledge, awakening artistic talents in students
who have an interest in music, and as one of the
handles when they will continue to a higher level.
With music art activities, students can be creative
according to their personalities so that they can
think creatively. Creativity in a student helps them
find many ways to solve the problems they will
face. The development of students' creativity with
music activities is very necessary so that in the
future students can process a concept into a
problem-solving.
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