The research by several Serbian authors provides significant data and solid references on the history of note singing textbooks (Vasiljević, Stojanović, Karan), so that the circumstances of their appearance have been unveiled, the concept and the contents analytically assessed, and today are familiar to the interested professional audience. We have, however, thought it necessary to cast another look into the past in order to get a broader view of the physiognomy of current literature for professional music education and possibly gain a better understanding of today's professional disagreements. Hereby we present, in the briefest form, several important publications for note singing and instruments used at the time, whose authors are also the persons who had, in our view, the most important influence on the development of music pedagogy in our country.