The music encyclopedia for children from the age of 7 contains 250 encyclopedia articles on instruments, composers and musical terms from the fields of classical, jazz and popular music - numerous examples of sheet music - registers with around 1000 keywords - explanations of the origin of words - phonetic transcription of foreign-language terms - new spelling - with a foreword by Peter Schreier. Over 200 illustrations and four-colour drawings illustrate and supplement the information.