The main representative figure of Xuetang Lege is: Li Shutong.

Introduction

School music is a singing culture that emerged with the establishment of new schools. It generally refers to the music classes offered by the school or the songs compiled for school singing. It is a selection of songs Songs with lyrics were originally written by returning overseas students using Japanese, European and American tunes, and later using folk ditties or newly created tunes. The advocates and promoters of school music are represented by enlightenment music educators such as Shen Xingong, Li Shutong, and Zeng Zhimin.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the political reformers at that time advocated the abolition of the old education system such as the imperial examination, followed the example of Europe and the United States, and established new schools. As a result, a number of new schools were gradually established. At that time, such schools were called "schools" and the music classes offered in the schools were called "music and song" classes.

So "school music songs" generally refer to school songs that appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China (similar to today's campus songs). Few young people today may know them, but they occupy a very important position in the history of modern music in our country. This can be said to be one of their characteristics.

Specific concept

School music refers to the singing culture that emerged with the establishment of new schools in the early 20th century. It generally refers to the music classes offered by the school or the creation of songs for the school. songs. Modern Chinese new music, represented by school music, has entered a new stage. As a new music form in the history of Chinese music, the emergence of school music not only has profound social internal causes, but also has a distinct external force.

Background

At the end of the 19th century, under the influence of the reform trend, the trend of "establishing new schools, introducing advanced Western education systems, and developing modern scientific education" began to rise. In 1904, the Qing government promulgated the "Regulations of the School", and in 1905, the imperial examination was abolished. New schools were established one after another, and this was the beginning of modern education in China. As a method of aesthetic education, music occupied an important position in the minds of advanced figures of that era.

Chinese intellectuals began to realize that if they did not want to be bullied, they could only "learn from the foreigners to control the foreigners." Only by studying modern Western science can we understand the gap between us, and only in this way can we catch up and narrow the gap.