Name the Composer: 20th & 21st Century – music composers game – music history

Name the Composer is a PowerPoint game that reviews 24 composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. Students spend clue tokens to get clues and try to name each composer. It’s a fun way to review what students have learned about the period and its music.

What’s included

• An interactive PowerPoint game
• Three clues for each of the 24 composers
• A PDF page of 24 clue tokens, so you can print as many as you need
• Directions for playing the game

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
• PowerPoint: A Google Slides link is not included, but if you upload the PowerPoint to Google Slides, the game works the same way.

Important

• The game must be in presentation mode, in PowerPoint or Google Slides, for the buttons to work, so each answer takes students to the right slide.

Ways to use it

• Whole-class review game
• Team competitions
• End-of-unit review
• To teach the composers first, pair it with the Modern Period Quick Guide.

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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