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Medieval Period in Music History Quick Guide – Music Composers – Music History

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This Medieval Quick Guide is an interactive slideshow that introduces students to the music, composers, and history of the Middle Ages. Students watch short videos, hear the music, learn key terms, and read about 12 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 Middle Ages and its music
  • Key terms: plainchant, monophony, polyphony, ars nova, secular music, and sacred music
  • Fun facts about the Medieval period
  • Images of Medieval art, written music, and instruments
  • 12 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 a time-travel journal entry, historical fiction starring a Medieval composer, comparing Medieval music with music today, comparing periods, and a composer facts worksheet
  • Google Forms versions of the worksheets
  • An editable outline of the slideshow
  • Directions for playing the slideshow, audio, and videos

Composers included

  • Guido of Arezzo
  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Comtessa de Dia
  • Léonin
  • Pérotin
  • Adam de la Halle
  • Philippe de Vitry
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • Francesco Landini
  • John Dunstaple
  • Guillaume Du Fay
  • Baude Cordier

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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68 reviews for Medieval Period in Music History Quick Guide – Music Composers – Music History

  1. SAS Band Resources –

    This was a great resource to help supplement my Medieval Era unit.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the review! I just wanted to let you know that I just posted an update on this resource today. You can download the updates in your account under “my purchases”.

  2. Clairessa Campbell –

    Very Useful and fun. Students really enjoyed it! Great lesson!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I love to hear that! Thanks!

  3. Emily B. –

    Great for teaching about the middle ages and helped students to understand period.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks Emily!

  4. Cassandra E L. –

    Exactly what it should be. Facts, videos, study notes. Awesome.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the great review!

  5. Jolene Workman –

    Easy to use, students were successful in navigating the content and it was an asset to the lesson.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  6. Jennifer G. –

    Excellent and easy-to-use resource for music history unit.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Awesome, thanks!

  7. Audrey Smith –

    This resource was a good reference for finding pieces of music to share with my students from the medieval era. I supplemented this with another resource on tpt and they worked well together.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m so glad it was helpful. Thanks for the review!

  8. Ashley P. –

    As someone who teaches in an urban school district, this has really helped me teach my high school music history course!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m truly delighted to hear that you found the resource helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughtful review.

  9. Jennifer Larson –

    This unit was a great introduction to music of the medieval period for high school music appreciation class. The students enjoyed engaging with the content.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks!

  10. Carolyn W. –

    This was a great resource we added to our social studies and music lessons.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  11. Hannah H. –

    I really like this resource, however my students did not. I still want to use it for future lessons. I will just need to get creative to make it more captivating for them.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m so sorry that your students didn’t enjoy this. Were you able to try out the time travel project that was included? Usually that will pique their interest. I’ve also updated the preview to include several additional ideas to keep students engaged. I hope it’s helpful!

  12. Mike W. –

    Thanks for providing fun learning tools! My students love your music units.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m so happy to hear that!

  13. Stephanie H. –

    I am building a unit and this is a great resource.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Awesome, thanks!

  14. Emily H. –

    I selected “al la carte” from the various historical periods to create my own presentation for music history. This was well put together, eye-catching, and very informative. Great tool!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  15. Amber B. –

    My students liked how this presentation was set up!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  16. Adrienne K. –

    There are not a lot of resources on Medieval Music for middle school, so I was very pleased to find this. I didn’t use it as a course, but rather for a more formal exposure to this art. The pieces chosen were short. My student was able to identify Perotin as the composer of a piece she hadn’t heard before.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      I’m so happy that they connected with it!

  17. Bethany S. –

    Nice!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  18. Fátima S. –

    Good resource

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  19. Deborah Curran –

    Nice resource about a time period we tend to overlook.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  20. Katherine R. –

    This resource provided me a good head start for teaching my older music students about music from the medieval period. However, I did have to fill in the gaps a bit to make it engaging for them. They enjoyed watching the videos, but in order to make the other materials engaging, I had to come up with my own activities (I ended up doing a gallery walk to teach about the composers, and this worked quite well). I anticipated this resource providing me with more “ready-to-go” activities and lessons, but that wasn’t the case. It did, however, give me information and resources so I didn’t have to find them myself. Overall, this is a good resource, so long as you realize that it isn’t a full unit plan.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you for the meaningful and thorough feedback. I truly appreciate it, as this helps me to better meet the needs of both teachers and students. I’ve edited the description to more clearly articulate that this resource is meant to be a quick guide and not a stand-alone unit plan. Again, thank you for the feedback 🙂

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