Th e paper examines the contribution of learning with the help of digital media to the quality of students' knowledge when getting acquainted with the basics of musical literacy in the teaching of Music Education in lower primary school grades (school year 2013/14, a sample of 78 fourth grade students from Serbia E = 39; C = 39). Th e research results have shown that the students from the experimental group (M = 4.05; SD = .972) achieved better results in musical literacy in the fi nal test by learning with the help of digital media, for this kind of work compared to the students from the control group (M = 3.15, SD = 1.309), who learned in the traditional way: t (78) = -3.438; average diff erence = -0.897; 95% CI: from -1.418 to -0.377; η = 0.134.