Unbreak the Heart: music matching games – music matching games

In these matching games, students put broken hearts back together by matching instruments, rhythms, composers, and music history periods. Students flip the cards over to check their own work, so the games work well for independent practice.

What’s included

• Instrument families: match each instrument to woodwind, brass, percussion, strings, or keyboard
• Rhythm: match quarter notes and barred eighth notes to animal names (4 pages of each)
• Composer facts: match each composer to facts about their life
• Music history periods: match each composer to Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, or 20th and 21st century

Composers included

• Medieval: Arezzo, Bingen, Pérotin, Léonin, Vitry, Machaut, Landini, Dufay
• Renaissance: Ockeghem, Desprez, Tallis, Palestrina, Lassus, Byrd, Casulana, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Assandra
• Baroque: Caccini, Strozzi, Leonarda, Lully, Purcell, Guerre, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann, Handel
• Classical: Gluck, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Boccherini, Saint-Georges, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
• Romantic: Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Chopin, R. Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, C. Schumann, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Sousa, Debussy, Beach, Joplin, Rachmaninoff, Coleridge-Taylor, Adams
• 20th and 21st century: Smyth, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Schoenberg, Bartók, Stravinsky, Price, Prokofiev, Still, Gershwin, Ellington, Copland, Seeger, Shostakovich, Cage, Britten, Bernstein, Williams, Glass, Tower, León, Larsen, Higdon, Whitacre

Formats

• PDF

Ways to use it

• Music centers
• Independent practice students can check themselves
• Small-group review before an assessment
• For spring-themed games, pair it with Musical Matching Games for Spring.

Standards (NCAS)

• Responding: Anchor Standard 7 (perceive and analyze artistic work)

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