Songs For Schoolchildren on Occidental Music Introeucing period

The authorized textbook which was introduced music (song) into the schooleducation for the first time is a collection of songs for schoolchildren, "Shogaku Shouka-shu". The fundamental obje-ct ought to have been to make our own National Music after harmonizing or adjusting advantages for both the Oriental music and the Occidental one but the Japanese musical scale and the Occidental one had been bined carelessly, for they were concluded as almost the same. It could not been switched and was the same as 'Ryo' scale of court music in Japan Gagaku. According to the melodies, newly composed ones were not so many, only the words of foreign songs were rewritten going along the line of then political measures and moral education 'Tokuiku' was put emphasis on.departmental bulletin pape