A cursor movement controlling apparatus for an electronic musical apparatus comprises a display that displays a plurality of choices for controlling parameters of the electronic music apparatus, each of which is categorized into one of groups, and a cursor for selecting the choices, an instructor that instruct a movement of the displayed cursor, a movement storage device that stores a content of the movement of the cursor when the movement of the cursor within the group is instructed, and a cursor moving device that moves, when the movement of the cursor to other group is instructed, the cursor to the choice that is in the other group and corresponding to the content of the movement storage device.