Abstract
In Japan, from Taisho era to early Showa era, the new educational movement based on progressivism became very popular. As to music education, the change from Singing to Music appeared during this period and at the same time the systematic and logical establishment of it as a subject came to be gradually considered. That is to say, the music education in the Taisho era was practised according to essentialism. At the Primary School Attached to Nara Women's Higher Normal School, there were two different types of music class; the music class taught by a music teacher, Jun Ikuo, and the music learning taught through the integrated learning. However, there existed opposing opinions between Takeji Kinoshita, whose thoughts were based on progressivism, and Jun Ikuo, which is based on essentialism. In this movement, Shigekazu Tsurui, in-charge of the integrated learning, taught children to master the learning contents, while promoting the children's voluntary learning on the viewpoint of the child-centered thoughts. The children's musical composition taught by Tsurui was considered to be epoch making since he tried to find the point of contact between progressivism and essentialism.
