However, there was also anxiety that a performing art, Noh would lose its vitality when only songs each having a very high degree of perfection were played as in those days, and, therefore, new songs were written and played in and after Meiji period.
しかし、このように極めて完成度の高い曲目ばかり演じていては、能という芸能から活力が失われるのではないかとの懸念もあり、明治以降も新しい曲目が書かれ、上演されている。