This study investigates the relationship between kindergarten teachers' musical sensitivities and young children's abilities in musical expression. To examine the relationship, criteria were developed to measure teachers' musical sensitivities, musical orientation, their own abilities in musical expression, practice in musical activities, and young children's abilities in musical expression. A questionnaire survey using these criteria was distributed to 198 kindergarten teachers who lived in Ehime prefecture. The results indicate that the teachers' hearing and seeing sensitivity and their sensitivity to children's speech and behavior correlate directly to young children's abilities in physical expression. The results also show that the score demonstrating kindergarten teachers' abilities in physical expression has a statistically significant relationship to practice in musical activities and to young children's abilities in musical expression.
