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Modern Period in Music History Quick Guide – Music Composers

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This Modern Quick Guide is an interactive slideshow that introduces students to the music, composers, and history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students watch short videos, hear the music, learn key terms, and read about 24 composers and where they were born. Project guides and worksheets let students go further with writing, research, and comparison.

What’s included

  • An interactive slideshow with a clickable menu
  • Video links about the 20th and 21st centuries and their music
  • Key terms: formalism, atonality, dissonance, aleatoric music, and minimalism
  • Fun facts about the Modern period
  • 24 composer pages, each with music samples or video links, birth and death years, a birthplace map, and facts about the composer’s life
  • Project guides and worksheets, including an experimental music project, a compare and contrast worksheet, a composer facts worksheet, a composer collage, running social media for a composer, and a worksheet with answer key for The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Google Forms versions of the worksheets
  • An editable outline of the slideshow
  • Directions for playing the slideshow, audio, and videos

Composers included

  • Dame Ethel Smyth
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Gustav Holst
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Béla Bartók
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Florence Beatrice Price
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • William Grant Still
  • George Gershwin
  • Duke Ellington
  • Aaron Copland
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • John Cage
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • John Williams
  • Philip Glass
  • Joan Tower
  • Tania León
  • Libby Larsen
  • Jennifer Higdon
  • Eric Whitacre

Formats

  • PDF
  • Google Slides: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.
  • PowerPoint
  • Google Forms: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.

Important

  • Please preview each video in its entirety before showing it to your class.
  • Videos play through YouTube, so an internet connection is required.
  • The slideshow must be in presentation mode for the audio and videos to work.

Ways to use it

  • Whole-class lessons
  • Self-paced learning or stations
  • Projects and research
  • For your classroom walls, pair it with the Music History Posters.

Standards (NCAS)

  • Responding: Anchor Standard 7 (perceive and analyze artistic work)
  • Connecting: Anchor Standard 11 (relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context)

License & help

This purchase is for one teacher to use with their own students. Each teacher needs their own copy. See the full terms of sale →

Questions about downloading, printing, Google Slides, or Google Forms? Visit the FAQ →

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43 reviews for Modern Period in Music History Quick Guide – Music Composers

  1. Morrison’s Music –

    My students loved this guided resource, great for music ed.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Fantastic! Thanks for the review.

  2. Jennifer Larson –

    Good content and a variety of composers are represented here.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the review!

  3. Susan B. –

    Great resource!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  4. Austin W. –

    great resource!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  5. Alana Reddy –

    Great!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  6. Laurel M. –

    I had trouble using the links. This is such a massive topic to cover it may need to be in smaller chunks for student comprehension and to retain the information.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Hi Laurel, thanks for the feedback. If you’re still having trouble with the links, please email me at theylbrickroad@gmail.com. I’d be happy to help!

  7. Music with Ms Mayhoff –

    Great addition to our music history units

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  8. Angela B. –

    This is an excellent resource!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  9. Sounds of Music –

    My students loved this presentation of the Modern Era. The music and composers selected gave a variety of the different styles that emerged and are continuing to develop during this era. It really made my life easier because all the links were done for me! Thank you!!!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome 🙂

  10. Stacie C. –

    It is very helpful to have resources like these when you have so many obstacles when teaching virtually. The musical examples and content were very well done.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m glad it was helpful 🙂

  11. Robin B. –

    There is a lot of great material to be used in bits and pieces or chronologically. I’m going to expand it to include more current composers

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the feedback 🙂

  12. Alisha S. –

    I love these! Very well put together and easy to use.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  13. Taylor Made Music –

    Great resource!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  14. Andrea H. –

    Love all your resources!! Looking forward to adding this!!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  15. Kathy S. –

    Very helpful!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  16. TheCurtainCallClassroom –

    I have purchased a few of these and my students love the format! They have great information and make learning about music history easy!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  17. Heidi S. –

    Can’t wait to use this – putting together a new unit for next year! Excited!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  18. Jennifer K. –

    Great and easy resource

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  19. Maureen L. –

    Great for my Decades of Music Class!!!!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  20. Jennifer C. –

    looking forward to using with music 8.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

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