2007 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 1-11
The goal of this research is to clear the process of the score spread in koto music instruction through following an opinion of magazine of Sankyoku.
The use of score in koto music instruction spread in about 1935 and it was predicted that score acquirement would become the custom of koto music in the near future in 1938. It may have become one factor of the score spread that score came to be used in the school curriculum that an organized, systematic, effective professor needed. In addition, the fact that the number of koto music people with an emmetropic eye increased is a possible factor for score spread outside of schools. The increase of koto players with good vision is one factor in the spread of score outside of schools. People with good vision became the majority among Jiuta koto players. It may have been one factor of score spread.
For the Showa period, the evils of using score were discussed. The negatives are as follows : efficiency of education has been too easily promoted, the results have become crude because of the excessive dependence on score, and the method of teaching with score does not fit with the method of conventional teaching. Difficulty with the spread of score knowledge and rearranging unification of musical notation were possible problems for the spread of score, too.
