This research is motivated by, in the era of globalization, now music is increasingly modern so that many prospective Riau University primary school teachers forget about traditional music so that researchers are interested in analyzing the knowledge of Riau University PGSD students for the 2017-2019 period of traditional musical instruments of Riau Province. . This research uses the descriptive quantitative method. This research was conducted on 358 students at PGSD, Riau University. The

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... ment used to collect the data was a written test consisting of 25 objective questions. The results of this study indicate that students who get very good categories are 92.73%. In the good category as much as 79.25%. In enough category as much as 63.92%. In the less category as much as 34.73%. Generally, the knowledge of Riau University PGSD students is in the good category with an average score of 72.93.