The content of this diploma thesis refers to theoretical and practical, ie empirical research that is related to the musical preferences of fourth grade students in Bjelovar and Karlovac and it is all related to the teaching of Music Culture. The theoretical part determines the importance of music through history and today, the domain in music culture, the description of musical preferences according to their models, describes listening to music as a central process in teaching and looks at traditional, artistic and popular music as the mainstays. Empirical research, as the second part of the thesis, focused on conducting an open-ended survey questionnaire, in an anonymous way, which gave certain results conducted in one fourth grade II. osnovne škole in Bjelovar and in one school of Braće Seljan in Karlovac. According to the results of the survey questionnaires, a comparison and conclusion on musical preferences was made, the specifics of the answers and the differences between the two classes were highlighted. Consequently, it was concluded what kind of music is preferred by fourth graders of two different schools.