2011年6月25日
Noh in the Classroom: The Situation of Noh Education in High School Music Classes
The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 会議種別
- 口頭発表(一般)
- 主催者
- Asian Studies Conference Japan
- 開催地
- 国際基督教大学
In 2003, current curriculum guidelines were implemented in high schools. The music curriculum guidelines exemplify Noh as one of the objectives to understand types and characteristics of the national or local traditional music of Japan. Before this exemplification, a vast number of high schools had held Noh appreciation classes and students had a chance to get in touch or be familiar with Noh. Nevertheless, in fact Noh is the foreign for them. One of main reasons of this situation may be the Western music-oriented educational system and absence of the teachers who are specialists of Japanese music. In addition, the total amount of music classes is limited, resulting classes of Japanese music, including Noh, Shamisen music (katarimono), or Biwagaku, to be relatively cut. In this presentation we investigated a situation of Noh education in the high school’s music classes based on such a point of view. In particular we conducted a field research in some high schools and surveyed the actual situation and condition on Noh education in the classroom.