23 emotional qualities of the music. While the poem set to music may or may not
be a more perfect work of art than the poem alone, it has certainly undergone a substantial metamorphosis, and its meaning is now more established because
of numerous musical elements which influence it.
C. Music and Lyric
1. Music
The Oxford dictionary defines music as “the art of arranging tones in an
orderly sequence so as to produce a unified and continuous composition”.
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Music is sublime and too varied, leaving each individual with a different set of choice. For some music may be a source of relaxation, while for others it can
be the meaning to let out their internal anguish. Even a person with the least inclination towards melody can recognize a piece of music instantly.
Music, an art of organized sound, is also virtually limitless in variety and in the power to enchant and challenge our ears. However, because it never
holds, and we cannot either see or touch it, understanding music can be an elusive thing, and some of the world‟s greater music may challenge the
unprepared listener‟s ears. Different types of music help in soothing one disturbed soul, in the
growth of concentration and also enliven us to live life to the fullest. There are various genres of music as people have different tastes, such as: Jazz, Blues,
Rock, Pop, Rap, Folk, and etc, but the objective remains the same. The aim of
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Hornby 2000, op. cit., p. 317.
24 all music is to touch the core of the heart and music can be called an
expression of our heart‟s saying.
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In creating a song, a musician or band attempts to express the feeling through the sound which is managed in order to make easy listening. While the
process of making the song, the musician gets satisfaction and happiness about something and then people who enjoy the song can also satisfy. Nevertheless,
perception about song may be different from one to another. So, it is not easy to create a song that is appreciated as good work by many people.
2. Lyric
Lyric is a group of words which forms a song, and the word lyric comes from Greek terminology, lyrikos sing by using zither. Lyric can be also
assumed as a literary work which expresses personal feeling.
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As an entertainment, lyric gives reliable information, easy listening, and understandable for listeners, so what the singer means can reach to them. In
addition, lyrics must be simple, effective, and understandable because language of song lyrics is not an awkward language, so the song cannot make
listeners confused.
The differences between poem and song may become less meaningful
where verse is set to music, to the point that any distinction becomes untenable. This is perhaps recognized in the way popular songs have lyrics.
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http:www.ringsurf.comonline2371-music.html
,
accessed on April, 20
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2011.
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http:en.wikipedia.orgwikilyrics, accessed on November, 27
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2010.
25 The word lyric
came to be used for the „words of a song‟; this meaning was recorded in 1876.
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The common plural perhaps because of the association between the plurals lyrics and words, predominates contemporary
usage. Use of the singular form lyric to refer to a songs complete set of words is grammatically acceptable. However, its not considered acceptable to refer to
a singular word in a song as a lyric. A lyric was a poem sung to the music of a lyre. The earlier meaning
– a poem is made for singing
– still current today, when we used lyrics to mean the words of a popular song. It is also written today; a short poem expressing the
thought and feelings of a single speaker who may sometimes be an invented character, not the poet and can be a choral lyric sung by a group chorus,
such as a dirge or hymn. Creating
lyric can be written as a realization of poet‟s sounds that express attitude, feeling and experience towards event, disaster, object, or other
experiences. Furthermore, it can also be written by using first pronoun, for instance „I‟ or „ik‟, although „I‟ is actually not poet himself. Nevertheless, the
way of expressing in attitude and other feelings gives expression that poetry is poet‟s sound because he is as „I‟ so that there is no distance between himself
and „I‟ as a character. In addition, lyric usually expresses feeling so that it is natural if poetry is related with love, death, religion, philosophy, and other
topics w hich are connected deepest instilling from heart‟s poet.
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http:www.answers.comtopiclyrics, accessed on May, 28
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2011.
44
Siswantoro 2010, op. cit., pp. 39-40.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In data description, the writer tabulated every line of song which was taken from lyric of song Hingga Akhir Waktu and Till the End of Time
including faithful translation both grammar and meaning, and then poetry translation which were used by the translator
based on Newmark‟s poetry and faithful translation theories. The data could be tabulated as follows:
Table 1 Data of Analysis
SOURCE LANGUAGE TARGET LANGUAGE
Hingga Akhir Waktu Bait 1
Kucoba untuk melawan hati Tapi hampa terasa
Di sini tanpamu Bait 2
Bagiku, semua sangat berarti lagi Kuingin kau di sini
Tepiskan sepiku bersamamu Bait 3 Reff
Tak‟kan pernah ada yang lain di sisi
Till the End of Time Stanza 1
I try to resist what my heart feels But Im falling into pieces
Drifting further away from you Stanza 2
Everything wont seem right If you were here with me
Youd brush away this loneliness from me
Stanza 3 Reff
There will never be another by my side
