Music History Posters – music composers – composer posters

These music history posters cover each period of Western art music history, with its composers, key terms, and a fun fact. Print the ready-made PDF, or use the editable PowerPoint to change each period’s years, terms, and fun fact. They follow the same layout as the Music History Quick Guides, so the two work well together.

What’s included

• Posters for each period of Western art music history, with the same composers as the Music History Quick Guides
• Key terms that help define each period
• A fun fact from each period
• Directions for use, including how to add your own composer images

Composers included

• Medieval: 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
• Renaissance: Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Thomas Tallis, Giovanni Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, William Byrd, Maddalena Casulana, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Caterina Assandra
• Baroque: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Henry Purcell, Domenico Scarlatti, Arcangelo Corelli, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel
• Classical: Christoph Gluck, C.P.E. Bach, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Charles Ignatius Sancho, Franz Joseph Haydn, Luigi Boccherini, Marianna Martines, Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert
• Romantic: Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, John Philip Sousa, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Amy Beach, Scott Joplin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Alton Adams
• Modern: 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

Important

• Only composers whose images are in the public domain are pictured. The others are shown as a silhouette.

Ways to use it

• Music history wall or bulletin board
• Reference during a music history unit
• To teach each period in more depth, pair them with the Music History Quick Guides.

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 →

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