This research aims to find about the correlation between Musical Syntactic Competence and Language Syntactic Competence. To find about this case is a investment in this new branch of linguistic area.
The design of this research is quantitative method using correlational study as its design. The population of this study is all English department students in higher education in Banjarmasin. The samples of this study are 20 students of English Department in Banjarmasin that has a competency in musical syntax. In data collection, the researcher used test as the instrument. Then, all of data that have been collected were analysed using Pearson product-moment formula.
The result of this research indicated that there is a fair or average correlation between Musical Syntactic Competence and Language Syntactic Competence.