Music History Bundle – All 6 Periods, 73 Composers | Grades 3-5 | No Prep

Teach a full year of music history with one resource. This grades 3-5 bundle covers all six major periods, Medieval through Modern, built around an interactive slideshow presentation with real music clips embedded for every composer. This bundle gives you a ready-made sequence from the Middle Ages to the present, all no-prep and classroom-ready.

What’s Included:

Six music history resources, one per period:

• Medieval Period (12 composers)
• Renaissance Period (10 composers)
• Baroque Period (12 composers)
• Classical Period (12 composers)
• Romantic Period (12 composers)
• Modern Period (15 composers)

Each resource includes:

Interactive Presentation (PowerPoint + Google Slides)

• Real music clips for every composer
• Composer facts written at a 4th-grade reading level
• Map visuals showing where each composer lived
• Listening challenges that put vocabulary terms to use with the slideshow’s music clips
• Daily Life sections connecting music to the wider world of each era
• Weird & Wonderful facts section built around unusual facts about each period

Composer Worksheets (PDF)

• One page per composer with an About paragraph, Birth Place, Dates, and a featured piece of music
• A Did You Know fact
• A What Do You Think prompt with lined space for students to write their response

Editable Outline (Word/Google Docs)

• Full content in an editable format to customize for your classroom

Featured composers span the full range of Western art music history, from Hildegard of Bingen and Maddalena Casulana to Florence Price, Tania León, and John Williams.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Real music, ready to play, no hunting for audio or worrying about broken links
• A ready-made sequence from the Middle Ages to the present
• No-prep and classroom-ready
• Designed for grades 3-5 music classrooms
• Works for whole-group lessons, sub plans, or independent learning