<![CDATA[Background :The good quality of sleep is a poor quality, and quantity of sleep a person. The of elderly at risk of disruption of sleep patterns. The patients with sleep disorders, generally difficult to sleep at night time, wakeup not in their fresh state should feel lethargic, weak, lacking spirit, still sleepy when I wake from sleep. One ofthe alternative to get a good sleep quality in the elderly with music therapy.Objective :To determine the effect of music therapy on sleep quality improvement Kedunggede elderly in thevillage of Banyumas district Banyumas.Method :Pre-design experiment with this type of design one-group pretest  posttes design. Sample size of thisstudy were 42 elderly. Statistical tests using independent samples T-test.Result :Mean score sleep quality of the elderly before the classical music therapy is 30.19, traditional musictherapy is 30.33 and after classical music therapy 41.57, traditional therapy 48.67. The results showed there isa effect of music therapy improved sleep are elderly before and after the p-value of 0.032.Conclusion :There is effect of music therapy on improving the quality of sleep in older adults. The result isexpected to be one of the alternative therapies to improve quality of sleep elderly.Key Words : music therapy, quality of sleep, ederly.]]>
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