A survey on the present state of music education at Elementary Schools (I) : a questionnaire survey of Elementary School teachers in Yamaguchi Prefecture

Music education at elementary schools plays a very important role after infant education. For whether children can maintain their interests in music throughout their lives depends on music education in this period. However, the present music education at this level in Japan has lots of problem about content, method, teacher's qualifications and so on. In order to solve these problems, first of all, it is necessary for university music teachers who are involved in music and methodology in music education to graspthe present state of music education and to make a research into teacher &#8211