This period is a period in which children's music education in modern China entered the initial development from germination, which is called the school music and song period in the history of music. Under the influence of bourgeois democratic revolution, the school music education at that time particularly emphasized the function of ideological and moral education. This can be proved by the works of famous educators at that time.

For example, Kang Youwei, the leader of bourgeois reformists, advocates that pregnant women should always listen to music and sing or play music freely; In nurseries and child-friendly homes, infants should learn to sing songs full of love. It can be seen that as an important tradition of music education in China, the idea of emphasizing the moral education function of music in prenatal education and preschool education was inherited and carried forward at that time.

As the first director of education in the Republic of China, Cai Yuanpei not only put forward the educational policy of "military nationalism education, materialism education, civic morality education, world outlook education and aesthetic education simultaneously", but also vigorously advocated aesthetic education, and publicized that aesthetic education in schools, families and society should be combined with each other to play the role of emotional cultivation. He also specifically pointed out that … those that are too exciting, too depressing, too complicated and too noisy should not be selected as preschool music textbooks.