This article reveals conceptual aspects with reference to artistic education and the formation of musical knowledge. It presents the realization of this process operating with the concepts of the famous Western, Russian and native scholars. One of the ideas characteristic of the scholarly pedagogical thinking is that in the process of forming the musical competences of the child through art, the child subjects the objects and phenomena of his acquired assimilation schemes. Knowledge – is an important component of the education process, being involved in every moment of the teaching-learning activity. The knowledge has accumulated in time, in consecutive layers, to reach the coherence and configuration of a well outlined science. The musical knowledge represents a systemof reference for scientists and practitioners. We aimed to analyze the classifications that have preserved their theoretical and praxiological value for years and have developed the term of musical knowledge.