近代以來，西式音樂傳入臺灣的徑路，主要有學校教育及教會兩大系統。 學校教 育方面，因實施對象、範圍較為廣闊，故在西式音樂的傳播方面，較教會更易普遍化且具影 響力。臺灣近代化學校教育的建立，始自日據時期。日人在據臺之初，係由日本著名教育家 伊澤修二著手擘劃臺灣的學制及課程。伊澤氏在臺灣建立學校體系後，即在教學課程內排入 「唱歌」一科。他並將其學自歐美的裴斯泰洛齊主義之唱歌教學法，引進臺灣的學校課程內 。日本殖民政府為求政權永固之計，乃以早日使臺灣人同化為施政主要方針，致特重視初等 教育之推行。為初等教育普及化之師資需求，又設置師範學校以培育小學師資，此即臺灣師 範教育體系之嚆矢。日據時期，師範生必須具備小學全科教學的能力，音樂科即是其專業訓 練課程之一，裨其未來能夠勝任小學生的「唱歌」課程。日據時期，日方並未在臺灣設立如 東京音樂學校之類的音樂專業教育機構，然以師範學校積極培養學生音樂專業能力的教學方 針觀之，可視為準音樂學校。師範畢業生既是小學「唱歌」課程之主要執教者，故其對臺灣 早期西式音樂的啟蒙有直接之貢獻。師範生在校期間，接觸西洋音樂的機會較常人多，因而 奠定良好的基礎，音樂人才輩出。 其佼佼者如張福興、李金土、李志傳.... 等，甚至赴日 繼續深造，富有非凡的造詣。留日臺籍師範生返臺後並成為臺灣近代音樂運動的中堅，對臺 灣西式音樂的發展影響至鉅，可視為師範教育體系對臺灣西式音樂發展的貢獻之二。本文以 《師範教育體系對臺灣早期西式音樂發展之貢獻》為題，分三方面討論：首先概述日據時期 臺灣師範教育之沿革；次從學校唱歌教育的實施，探討師範教育體系對臺灣西式音樂啟蒙之 貢獻；最後則探討具有師範背景的臺籍音樂前賢之生平事蹟，裨從中瞭解師範教育體系，對 臺灣早期西式音樂發展之影響與貢獻。

　　　　　Recently western music entered Taiwan through the normal education and the church. Because the acceptants and range of the school education were more widespread than the church, normal education could spread western music more easily and it was more influential. The Japanese established the modern educational system when they occupied Taiwan. At the beginning of governing, the famous Japanese educationlist, Mr. Ezawa Shooji, started to lay out the school system and curriculum in Taiwan. Mr. Ezawa put "Singing Lesson" into the curriculum when he completed the establishment of the school system. He also introduced the singing methodology of the Pestalozzianism that the learned from Eurpoe into the school lesson of Taiwan. In order to occupy and rule Taiwan forever, th Japanese colonial government took cultural assimilation as the priority of its policies; therefore, it regarded the promotion of primary education highly. To meet the demand of teachers caused by the popularization of primary education, the government set up normal schools to cultivate primary school teachers. This was the beginning of normal education system. In the Japanese occupation regime the students of normal school had to have the ability to teach all subjects. Accordingly, music lesson became one of the professional training in the normal school that the graduated could teach "Singing Lesson" in primary schools successfully. There were no professional educational institution of music as same as Tokyo Music School in Taiwan, however, because of its teaching principle of training the professional music teachers, the normal school actually acted as the to-be music school at that time. The graduates of normal school were the main executives of "singing lesson" in primary school that they conduced to the early development of western music directly in Taiwan. Because the students of normal school had more opportunities to contact western music in the school, they all had good foundation of music and many of them became very outstanding musicians, such as Chang Fu-hsing, Li Chin-tu and Li Chi-chuan,...etc. Some graduated even went to Japan to study music further and got very prominent achievement on music. Those people came back Taiwan and became the support of recent music movement in Taiwan. They contributed to the development of western music in Taiwan greatly. This article is written for discussing "The Contribution of Teachers Education to The Development of Western Music in Early Taiwan "from the following aspects: ． To outline the normal education in Taiwan in the Japanese occupation regime. ． To investigate the contribution of normal education to the development of western music in early Taiwan from the performance of "Singing Lesson" in school. ． To introduce the lives of those early musicians who had educational background of normal school, and to learn the contribution of normal education to the development of western music in Taiwan from their lives.