The purpose of this paper was to reveal how children develop their interests in the integrated learning including music and how they learn by crossing some subject matters, analyzing the example of integrated learning at the 5th grade-class, Mutsumi-Hokubu Elementary School, 1996. The author concluded as follows: The children's interests developed according to the genetic process of Minyo (a folk-song). And the contents in different subject matters were learned integratedly through the development of interests.

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In this paper I examined the change of children's view of music in 2 teaching practice by world music of various folks. The purpose was to prove the effectiveness of the world music as the teaching materials. To accomplish this purpose, the author suggested the viewpoints by analyzing the reports of teaching the world music, and constructed the plan of world music classworks from the viewpoints for the 5th graders. So "music and dance in Eastern European countries" and "Japanese traditional folk music and dance" were selected as the teaching materials. Through the teaching practices the viewpoints were found effective to change and widen the children's view of music.

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The purpose of this paper was to clarify how to grasp and teach the basic techniques for singing at the teachers college. The hypothesis I made was that the basic techniques for singing should be taught with emphasis on the understanding of the relationships between the form and content of music effectively. For the purpose, I developed the methods based on that hypothesis and experimented them in the vocal classes of Osaka Kyoiku University, resulting in considerable success.

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In the early 1830's, the school system for the blind was first established in the eastern cities en the United States. These cities, New York, Boston and Philadelphia were developing and growing as the great industrial cities at that time. In these cities, many people enjoyed playing and listening to music as the symbol of their wealth and intelligence. Moreover, in these cities, especially in Boston, some very excellence piano industries, for example Chikering&Sons which is world-wide famous industry, was established. Many people claimed good music instructors for their study, and many piano factories claimed good tuners for their success. So that,the superintendents of the institutions for the blind expected that, in these cities, good musicians and piano tuners were in great request. And They convinced that the musician is vary appropriate vocation for the blind because they was believed having special talent for music for the long time. About in ten years, American institutions for the blind accomplished their first purpose. Some pupils became piano instructors, organist and music teachers of the academy for the sighted and gain their livelihood by music. The industrial revolution in the 19th century brought to the blind new vocation, the independence, happiness and self-reliance. But the blind also, contributed to development of the industry and the culture in the community, by participating actively in music.

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