ABSTRACT
Lutfy Fajar Hudayah, 2016. An Analysis of Moral Values in Song Lyrics Forgive Me Album by Maher Zain S1. Thesis. English Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Mulawarman University. Advisors: (1) Prof. Dr. Rahmat Soe’oed, MA (2) AK Amarullah, S.S., M.Pd
Moral values are standard accepted principles of life. It is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of humancharacters. Moral values from a subset of the set of all values, and value simplyconsist of the things that some people values. The purpose of this study were asfollows (1) to find out the Indonesian moral value in song lyrics album by MaherZain, (2) to find out the kinds of the moral values in the song lyrics album byMaher Zain and (3) to find out the most frequent moral values in the song lyricsalbum by Maher Zain. Subject in this study are song lyrics that consider andcontaining moral values. This study was qualitative descriptive because this studyis aim to make systematic, factual, accurate description of the moral values in thesong lyrics forgive me album. The data was analyzed systematically based on thedata Moleong (2009: 6) who state that qualitative research is a kind of researchcaied out to understand the phenomena that occur in research subject such asmusical note; intonation and meaning of song lyrics by describe it in words andusing various scientific method. The result of this analysis is shown eleven moralvalues are found in Forgive Me album by Maher Zain songs. the similaritiesIndonesian moral values wih the moral values found n Maher Zain songs, and themoral values most frequent in forgive me album by Maher Zain song. Thefindings of the moral values in Forgive me album by Maher Zain are eleven.
There are religiosity, love affection, loyalty, sincerity, thankfulness, steadfastness,humbleness, peace loving, brotherhood, respecting other, and optimism. TheIndonesian moral values found in the song lyrics album are religiosity,communicative, and peace-loving. And the moral values most frequent in the song lyrics album are religiosity, love affection and loyalty.
Keywords: Moral Values, Song Lyric, Maher Zain