フリッツ・イェーデの音楽教育理念 : 内面的育成とその実現のための音楽教育との関係に焦点をあてて

Abstract

Fritz Jöde was a music teacher who greatly influenced music education in 20th-century Germany, and he is known as a leader of the German youth music movement. This paper focuses on relations between the nurturing of inwardness as a target and the music education realizing this target, as stated in Jöde’s principles of music education. According to Jöde, “Life”(Leben) and“Eroscommunity”(Erosgemeinschaft) were key words denoting the inwardness, creativity, organicity, and sublimity of music. He insisted especially on music education for nurturing inwardness and based its features on the key words above. These features are (1) having a sense of awe toward music; (2) using folk songs of the 15th and 16th centuries, works of art, polyphonies, ensembles or choruses, singing as the base of an activity, a crosscurricular approach, or an improvisation; (3) performing with liveliness (Lebendigkeit); and (4) understanding music through organic melodies. Although this music education shows a biased opinion about musical compositions, it has proper aspects from the view of musicians-having a sense of sublimity toward Bach’s work and finding inwardness and creativity in music. Therefore one reason that Jöde’s music education was so influential must be that it captures the essence of music.