Abstract
This study is based on society’s reality about the diversity of musical expressions of the sholawat art which is still ongoing. Therefore, this study aims to identify, analyze, and describe the musical expressions of sholawat art that exist in society in the context of a multicultural society. This study is a qualitative descriptive study with a musicology approach as the main approach. This study used several techniques for data collection, namely interview techniques, document and documentation study techniques, and observation techniques. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using content analysis with the main musicological approach which refers to the concept of composition, harmony, song form, and presentation form. The results show that in a multicultural society, such as Indonesia, there are various kinds of musical expressions of sholawat art. If we look at musicology, the diversity of musical expressions includes several kinds of expressions, which include the variety in characterization, the variety in the scale tradition used, the mixture in the use of song lyrics, and the variety in the technique of using language in composing the lyrics.
Highlights
Indonesia’s territory consists of about 16,000 large and small islands and is inhabited by more than 400 large and small ethnic groups who embrace various major religions (Melaletoa & Dloyanah, 1995)
The target of the study is the musical expression of sholawat art in a multicultural society
Variety of Sholawat Expressions Based on the observations made, in the tradition of sholawat expression that develops especially in Indonesian Muslim communities, it can be found that the tradition of saying sholawat when viewed from the presence or absence of elemental content in a musical composition can be explained as follows
Summary
Indonesia’s territory consists of about 16,000 large and small islands and is inhabited by more than 400 large and small ethnic groups who embrace various major religions (Melaletoa & Dloyanah, 1995). The major religions are Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and belief in the One and Only God with various cultural forms and forms (Soedarsono, 2001). This amount means that Indonesia has various forms and varieties of art in each of these ethnic groups, including various performing arts. Along with the conditions of the diversity of cultures, ethnicities, languages, arts that exist and develop in Indonesia, this situation will influence the Luthfi bin Yahya et al, Musical Expression of Sholawat Art in Multicultural Societies: community in expressing or expressing the art of sholawat music so that there may be various kinds of expressions of sholawat art that occur and develop in society This art can be expressed in multiple forms of presentation and in a very diverse context, both related to its function and expression itself, as well as in certain moments
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