Classical Music Listening Activities | 20 Composer Bundle with 70 Bonus Posters
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Just print & play! Do you need engaging listening activities or music sub plans? These printable listening sheets offer creative ways for students to learn more about the life and compositions of 20 composers! Designed with the youngest students in mind - this bundle contains handwriting practice, coloring, and drawing.
Bundle Benefits:
- Save time! The music selections are already curated for you
- Add music appreciation to various lessons and unit studies
- Students explore social-emotional themes through listening
- Low-prep engaging and mindful activities for students
- Easily find the music on YouTube or your favorite music services
- No musical training is required - just print and play!
Learning Objectives
- increased knowledge of popular classical music composers
- familiarity with the composer's works
- ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of classical music
- identify different instrument sounds
- social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within classical music
- creative expression by drawing and choosing colors related to a musical theme
What’s Inside:
- Five Star Rating Guide
- Composer Fact Sheet: Each composer fact sheet in this series includes fun, basic information – full name, birthplace, birth date, and more. One of the composer’s most popular compositions is also included. The fact sheet contains a place for writing fun facts or notes.
- Word Composer Activity: In the classic letter puzzle, students can use all the letters from the composer's full name to create new, shorter words. Add a timer for an extra challenge.
- Birthplace Fact Sheet: Use your favorite geographical resource to find the country’s language(s), leadership, traditional foods, and more! The historical name of some territories may have changed, but the most modern country is used for easy reference.
- Birthday Coloring Page: A fun coloring page repeats the composer’s birthday, and invites the artist to color in a special cupcake to celebrate the occasion.
- Composer Study Page: Students compile a short biographical page with the composer's full name, birthplace, instruments, and more!
- Composer Vocabulary Another six-word vocabulary list that typically includes the composer’s name, birthplace, instrument, or other related terms. Space is provided to trace each term and the included handwriting paper can be used for additional practice.
- Full Writing Page
- Writing/Drawing Page
- Drawing Page
- Listening Activity Sheets Listening sheets include the title of a popular piece, the composer, a black & white composer to color in, and a space for drawing any scene that may come to mind when listening. There are additional options to identify the mood of a piece and indicate which instruments are playing.
- Weather Color & Listen Sheet: While listening to the selected piece, students can color in the weather elements they feel and hear.
- Emotions Color & Listen Sheet: Students color the character(s) that best identify their emotions while listening to the music.
- Emojis Color & Listen Sheet: Twelve emojis to choose from! Students choose the emoji faces that best match their feelings or impressions about the music.
Choose composers by their birthday month or in any order at all! With 20 to choose from you can plan units for the whole year. Each composer unit includes 50 pages!
Composers Included:
01. Franz Schubert (January)
02. Gioachino Rossini (February)
03. John Williams (February)
04. Joseph Haydn (March)
05. Astor Piazzolla (March)
06. Modest Mussorgsky (March)
07. Robert Schumann (June)
08. Edvard Grieg (June)
09. Gustav Mahler (July)
10. Claude Debussy (August)
11. Leonard Bernstein (August)
12. Antonín Dvořák (September)
13. Clara Schumann (September)
14. George Gershwin (September)
15. Camille Saint-Saëns (October)
16. Aaron Copland (November)
17. John Philip Sousa (November)
18. Scott Joplin (November)
19. Carlos Gardel (December)
20. Ludwig Van Beethoven (December)
+ BONUS FILE
This bundle has you covered with engaging listening activities, but what about visual learning? Grab this pack of 70 Composer Fact Sheet Posters as a free bonus! These calming rainbow-themed posters can also work as handouts, or resize them in your print settings for colorful flashcards.
