Javanese is familiar with the rich folklore. In Magetan, East Java, Indonesia there is a music tradition that has a form of rhythm pattern from the pounding lesung (a kind of wooden mortar) and pestle. This study focuses on the music phenomena of oral tradition as a way to educate from the elder to younger people. This research uses qualitative interpretative as a method. Qualitative interpretative in this research understand the data from the local terminology and views contextual

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... among the art objects to the culture of society as an organic system. As a result, the mortar music tradition is Javanese agrarian folklore which exists for years. The tradition is contained in the value of fertility, the prominent character of agrarian culture. The society can keep the continuity of life through how they cultivate the land and how they do reproduction from the value of daily life and guides of life.