Abstract
In the common education, lessons in music should be supported by Solfege. It is an educational method to learn how to read and write music. It also leads students to grasp musical structures through the ear. Thus Solfege can be expected to deepen students' musical recognition that will help them reach the depths of music. Therefore, Solfege should be the very foundation of musical education. But it has been practically neglected and very few people study .the betterment of Solfege in our country when compared with Kodaly system, for example, in Hungary. On the contrary, Japanese students have had enough of the kind of solfege that often compels them to sit uninterested and even painful singing or hearing automatically without inner music. In order to find a remedy for this, here is presented a suggestion to explore the possibilities of Solfege that will show us the road to music. Before the presentation of how to solve the problem, the principle of pitches as one of those factors dealt with in Solfeging, and its adoption to education are discussed in this thesis.