Composers & Musicians Notebooking Pack

Let your uppers elementary and middle school students complete a study on the history of music with this Famous Composers & Musicians Notebooking Pack.

This printable pack includes a title page and notebooking pages for 27 different composers and musicians.

Study medieval times through modern music!  

This printable pack is available free in our resource library.

The notebooking pages include a photo of the composer or musician, their name, and blank lines for your student to write.

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Composers & Musicians included:

Medieval Period:

• Guillaume de Machaut

Renaissance Period:

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Baroque Period:

• Antonio Vivaldi
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• George Frideric Handel

Classical Period:

• Joseph Haydn

Classical / Romantic Period:

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert

Romantic Period:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Clara Wieck Schumann
• Robert Schumann
• Franz Liszt
• Johannes Brahms
• Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

20th Century:

• Claude Debussy
• Igor Stravinsky
• Carl Orff
• Aaron Copland
• Glenn Miller
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Elvis Presley
• The Beatles
• George Jones
• Peggy Seeger

How to Use these Musicians and Composers Notebooking Pages:

• Print out the pages you will need and staple together or put in a folder.
• The title page contains a picture of music and a place for your student to write their name.
• Listen to some of each artist’s music and learn about their life.  You might want to go in-depth and read a biography. Or just find a website with basic information.   
• On each notebook template, write about the life and music of the composer or musician.  
• You might have your student include birth and death dates, type of music, famous works, and their favorite piece. They could also include a short biography, their role in musical history, or a list of interesting facts.

Download the Famous Composers & Musicians Notebooking Printable Pack