Vocal and Consonant Patterns in Indonesian Children's Songs

Abstract

As a medium in educational music, the song provides space for explanations related to the sound of the language. Prosody or language sounds have similarities to musical sounds studied in phonology. Thus, the management of language sounds in expressing children's songs can be used to identify prosodic factors in educational music. This study aims to provide an explanation of the prosody of children's songs in the context of educational music and to find out the factors that influence prosody in children's songs, the sound changes that occur, accompaniment sounds that accompany the main sound, and the factors that influence it in the context of music education. The results of this study show the characteristics of vowel and consonant sounds in children's song lyrics and the sounds produced for certain vowels and consonants. The factors that influence prosody in children's songs are the word order in the form of vowels and consonants in each of the lyrics. This is to clearly understand the sounds produced by children and their use in educational music.