PT Journal AU Katarynczuk-Mania, L Kolodziejski, M TI Subjective insight into some selected competences of a music teacher SO Aura musica PY 2017 BP 112 EP 117 VL 10 IS 1 DE competences; music teacher; music education; music at school AB The subject of this article is the subjective insight into some selected competences of a teacher of music within the general music education which constitute a starting point in considerations on the role of a teacher of music in the process of the children's and the youth's education which is framed in the humanistic pedagogical mindset of education characterised with axionormative, fundamental, holistic, syncretic, contextual, diachronic and alternative character. As the authors see it, a teacher of music realises their vision as a counsellor, an integrator, an educator, a music-therapist as well as a reflexive and critical practitioner. ER