A child is encountering music and musical development even before birth. Engaging children in the artistic field stimulates their entire intellectual, psychophysical, emotional, moral, spiritual and physical development, while emphasising the cultural and aesthetic dimension of education. Early and pre-school age is paramount to the general development of the child, and therefore music education in preschools is a crucial part of the educational process. Music education affects the child's physical and intellectual abilities and enables the development of an aesthetic relationship to music and art in general. Music education helps stimulate learning and encourages children to become active participants in personal learning. Furthermore, musical activities in the early and pre-school period contribute to the development of verbal and non-verbal skills of the child, visual and auditory perception, improvement of cognitive processes (memory, thinking, observation, action), creativity and social interaction, development of motor skills, creativity, abstract thinking, auditory discrimination etc. In other words, music triggers and develops all the abilities of children: motor, cognitive, creative and affective. Musical development of preschool children can be accomplished by a number of methods: singing, playing, listening to music, expressing, creating, moving, practical and work tasks, games and other social and entertainment activities. Tree interrelated preconditions are crucial in the process of educating and enhancing the musical potential of preschool children: the child's musicality, existing musical abilities and musical intelligence. The results of music education largely depends on the educator, his or her expertise and competences, but also on the quality of the curriculum of early and pre-school education that recognizes musical development in terms of the child's overall development.