20th and 21st Century in Music History Quick Guide – Music Composers

20th and 21st Century in Music History is a quick guide to music samples, videos, fun facts, and major composers from the 20th and 21st century of western art music history. This interactive PowerPoint slideshow allows you to introduce middle school or junior high students to music in the Modern Period.

 

This resource is perfect for:

• general music teachers
• middle school music teachers
• high school music teachers
• homeschoolers

 

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN THE SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION:

 

HOME PAGE

•  main menu with clickable categories

 

VIDEOS

• 12 engaging and fun videos about The Modern Period
• you have the option of playing videos via Safeshare, ViewPure, or Youtube
•  ontent ranging from Peter and the Wolf beatboxing to The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

 

MUSICAL TERMS

•  brief descriptions of the terms formalist, atonality, dissonance, aleatoric music, and minimalism

 

FUN FACTS

•  brief list of fun facts that make The Modern Period unique

 

COMPOSERS

Each composer page includes a sample of their music, year of birth, nationality (includes map), and several facts about their music and lives as composers.

 

• Dame Ethel Smyth
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Gustav Holst
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Bela Bartok
• 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

 

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, PROJECT GUIDES, & WORKSHEETS

Google Forms are included for distance learning

• editable outline of the slideshow presentation (in Microsoft Word)
• 5 Project guides and worksheets for additional activities including an experimental music project, compare and contrast worksheet, composer facts worksheet, composer collage project, social media manager project, and The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra worksheet and answer key

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

• instructions to play your slideshow
• instructions to play audio samples and videos

 

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WHAT CUSTOMERS LOVE ABOUT THIS QUICK GUIDE:

 

“Excellent and thorough resource for my music class. Saved much time having all of this info about the period in one place!”

 

“This works perfectly for my unit on Music History eras. Its colorful and relevant for my 7th graders!”

 

“These quick guides have been a lifesaver! Really helped my Era Units!”

 

“Great for upper general music classes”

 

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