According to Prof. Hsu Tsang-houei of National Taiwan Normal University, Western music first reached Taiwan in the 1860's largely through the hymns of Presbyterian missionaries.
根據師大音樂系教授許常惠的說法，西式音樂傳入台灣，約在一八六○年，與基督教長老會以詩歌傳教有莫大關係。