Children's musical development is impossible without appealing to musicality - a mandatory condition in any musical education and training process. Musicality is the totality of musical skills necessary for participation in musical activities. Shaping the child's personality through musical activities is impossible without the involvement of the components of the musicality structure. Unevenly developed musical skills compensate each other. This article brings together studies on: the concept of musicality from the perspective of several scholars in the century. XX-XXI, the impact of children's skills in the variety of forms of initiation of children in music, the characteristics of children's musicality from birth to 7 years.