Music perception is an optional course available to all students regardless of their major studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Its basic content is profound music understanding, its emotional, aesthetic and ethic issue. The author aim is maintaining and keeping music tradition alive through the subject Music perception, because music is being a victim of the existing shortening time span while receiving and memorizing information. The way of understanding music while listening is through emotional experience, aesthetic pleasure and ethic message formed by the responsibility for the music piece. Only a coordinate recognition of all the three music issues leads to a true holistic enjoyment.