Abstract

The article is a kind of report on my own questionnaire survey concerning the problem of im- plementation of curricular contents of the Music handbook, the use of which was obligatory in Polish educational system at the turn of the 20th and 21st century.

The basis for analysis were: curricular contents of selected handbooks for primary schools (forms 4–6) and secondary schools (gymnasia) (forms 1–3), Acts of the law of 1999 concerning reform of the system of education, curricular basis for the subject Music at the second and third stages of the educational level and results of my own research carried out in 2011 in selected Polish towns and cities, e.g. Kraków, ód, Pozna, Warszawa, Wrocaw and in the rural areas of the country. Their purpose was to determine quality and effectiveness of teaching the subjectMusic in schools.

The answers provided by 368 respondents and analysis of documents allowed to determine a number of difficulties in conductive effective implementation of the curricular contents. They are, e.g. too small number of hours assigned to teaching the subject Music, diversified degree and musical ability and skills of the pupils, school equipment which was incompatible with the re- quirements of the curricular basis, etc.