The question of what types music should be taught in music education and how they should be taught is crucial for the state of music education in Japan. This study examines the draft of the Courses of Study that publicly presented views on music and music education for the first time in Japan, and clarifies what kind of teaching materials and descriptions were used to teach these views via analyzing textbooks. Additionally, in this study, we relied on the ideas of Moroi Saburo, the author of the draft of the Courses of Study. In the examination of the views of music and music education in the Courses of Study, the image of Moroi’s idea of the social creation of music could be seen. Moroi shows that musical creation is enhanced by not only the composer, but also a society that includes a correct and critical audience. From this idea, it is clear that the Courses of Study analyze the formation process of music by its temporal nature and define “elements” and “form” as the images of music to be taught, which in turn should be studied from the perspective of the composer, performer, and audience in the social creation of music. In the examination of how these views of music and music education are presented in the textbooks, it became clear that the textbooks contained many descriptions of “elements” and “forms” for viewing music as an art form, and that these were structured in a way that they could be applied to not only a particular piece of music but also other pieces. Moreover, basic singing exercises included in the textbooks, which extracted several “elements” or “forms” from a piece of music, encouraged students to develop a systematic understanding of music as an art form and enabled them to develop a proactive approach toward learning it.