The purpose of the bachelor thesis Music as a form of expression and communication in the Department of Primary School - an analysis of teachers and students talk about music education for grades 4-6, is to examine how the aim “to provide students with opportunities to acquire music as a form of expression and means of communication” written in the curriculum for the compulsory school is expressed in the actual the actual music education for grades 4-6. The result of the survey is that the actual teaching focuses on preparing artisanal skills such as play technical qualities, music theory and history. The curriculum core content for different grades have a dominant influence in linguistically pronounced distinctions of what music education is, and should be which control the actual music teaching content. The core content for grades 4-6 does not include practical creativity and expression but focus on the defined preparatory artisanal skills. I have in my collection of empirical data used literature studies, qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. I have structured my material on the basis of a methodology taken in theory of critical discourse and cultural psychology and analyzed this from a sociocultural perspective. Theoretical approaches have also been theory of power in the relationship, children and adults as well as theory in the roots of the philosophy of art.