EDUKACJA MUZYCZNA NA ŚWIECIE W KRĘGU ZAINTERESOWAŃ CZASOPISMA „WYCHOWANIE MUZYCZNE”

The author analyzes the variety of topics in music education worldwide, presented until 2016 in “Wychowanie Muzyczne” journal since it has been first released in 1957. In the enormous number of issues of the magazine, the topics were not of key impor-tance, however they played a significant role in broadening the awareness of music teachers and academics. They promoted ideas and concepts developed in different parts of the world, they showed common problems, as well as systemic, curriculum- and methodology-based differences in systems of music education across different countries. The analysis covers 215 papers on the subject. The main organizing criterion was a liter-ary genre and literary form. The papers were analyzed in the following order: literary se-ries; reprints from international journals; critical analyses using examples of foreign lit-erature; accounts of trips abroad including international conferences and symposia; papers by international authors and Polish authors living permanently abroad, including interviews with representatives of international cultural and education centres, as well as research accounts and scientific studies. The analysis also presents transformations in music education in Poland and worldwide over the past sixty years.