<![CDATA[This study examines Indonesian Art Songs Based on Poetry (Lagu Puisi Indonesia) as a form of cultural dialogue through the perspectives of cross-cultural studies and artistic research. The study is motivated by the absence of a specific terminology that adequately explains the development of vocal and piano compositions based on Indonesian poetry, which have traditionally been associated with categories such as seriosa, Indonesian classical music, or tembang puitik (poetic songs). Employing a practice-based research approach within the framework of artistic research, the creative process of composition functions simultaneously as both the object and method of inquiry. Data were generated through the analysis of Indonesian poems as compositional sources, documentation of the compositional process, critical artistic reflection, and musicological examination of the relationship between text and music. The findings reveal that the transformation of poetry into song involves hermeneutic interpretation, intersemiotic translation, and musical reconstruction through the manipulation of melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form. Furthermore, the creation of Lagu Puisi Indonesia demonstrates an ongoing negotiation among Indonesian literary traditions, Nusantara musical idioms, and Western art song conventions, resulting in a dialogic and hybrid musical expression. The study also shows that the compositional process generates new artistic knowledge concerning the mechanisms of poetry-to-music transformation, strategies of cultural negotiation, and the conceptual formulation of Lagu Puisi Indonesia as a distinct musicological category. Therefore, Lagu Puisi Indonesia may be understood both as a practice of cultural dialogue and as a medium for the production of artistic knowledge within contemporary music composition.]]>
