Abstract
This paper is a process in continual study in regard to the root and its changes of the school music education in our country. The school music education in our country begins at "Ongaku Torishirabegakari" which starts in beginning of the meiji period, and at that time "The Pestulozzi an teaching method in music education" was brought here by way of America. Regarding the original contents of the teaching method that was set up in Switzerland, I have already explained its outline in my former study. So this time, I studied the introduction to Ameraca and the changes of the teaching method by comparing "Gesangbildungslehre nach Pestalozzischen Grundsaessen"by H.G.Naegeli and M.T.Pfeiffer and "The Pestalozzian Music Teacher" by L. Mason. There are various agreements and disagreements in them both,and especially it can be said that the Pestalozzian teaching method in the latter is more improved than that in the former because of the following two points. 1) In combination with rhythm and melody, pupil can get natual beauty and pleasure in music. 2) It seems that L.Mason researched the child development and the psychological viewpoint more deeply in his own way.
