By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation
Just Print and Play! Do you need engaging classical music activities? Students can detail their listening experience with emojis, checkboxes, and a space for drawing/notes! Also great for music sub plans or brain breaks!
Bundle Benefits:
- Save time! The music selections are already curated for you
 - Add music appreciation to various lessons and unit studies
 - Students explore social-emotional themes through listening
 - Low-prep engaging and mindful activities for students
 - Easily find the music on YouTube or your favorite music services
 - No musical training is required - just print and play!
 
Learning Objectives
- increased knowledge of popular classical music composers
 - familiarity with the composer's works
 - ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of classical music
 - identify different instrument sounds
 - social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within classical music
 - creative expression by drawing and choosing colors related to a musical theme
 
What's Included:
Emoji Rating Guide (14 emojis to choose from, color and b&w)
Listening Sheets - there are no wrong answers! Students can use the checkboxes to note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from the musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more!
Checkbox options:
Time, nature, settings, instruments, colors, and more! Students can also color in the emojis that best describe their listening experience in the emoji grid.
The 'Inspiration Box' can be used for:
Drawing/doodling, journaling, notes, poetry, etc.
Hello, January!
- Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne, Ernest Tomlinson
 - Masquerade Suite, Aram Khachaturian
 - The Blue Danube, Johann Strauss
 - Les Patineurs Valse (The Skater's Waltz,) Émile Waldteufel
 - Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major, Joseph Haydn
 - Concerto Grosso in C Major, Arcangelo Corelli
 - Piano Concerto in G Major, Maurice Ravel
 - Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holst
 - Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams,) Tchaikovsky
 - Waltz in D, Op. 9, No. 3 ("Country Waltz,) Franz Schubert
 - Suite De Symphonies, No. 1 (Rondeau,) Jean-Joseph Mouret
 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 4 in G Major, Johann Sebastian Bach
 - Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, Johann Sebastian Bach
 
Sweet February
- Liebesträume No. 3, Liszt
 - Piano Concerto No. 21, Mozart
 - Clair De Lune, Debussy
 - Romeo and Juliet Overture, Tchaikovsky
 - Violin Romance No. 2, Beethoven
 - Salut d'Amour, Elgar
 - Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninoff
 - Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Tchaikovsky
 - Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo), Mascagni
 - Fantasia No. 3, Mozart
 - Symphony No. 9, Schubert
 - Piano Sonata No. 3, Brahms
 - Bolero, Ravel
 - "Moonlight Sonata", Beethoven
 - The Moldau, Smetana
 - Serenade, Schubert
 - Romance in F Minor, Dvorak
 - Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn
 - Arabesque No. 1, Debussy
 
Emerald March
- In Ireland, Sir Hamilton Harty
 - Londonderry Air, Harty
 - Symphony No. 3 "Irish," Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
 - Nocturne No. 4 in A Major, John Field
 - Piano Concerto No. 3, Field
 - Symphony in E Major "Irish," Sir Arthur Sullivan
 - Cello Concerto, Sullivan
 - Symphony No. 1, Stanford
 - Irish Rhapsody No. 1, Stanford
 - Irish Suite, Leroy Anderson (American composer)
 
April Sunshine
- Where the Lemons Blossom, Strauss (title translations will vary)
 - Symphony No. 1 (Spring,) Schumann
 - The Four Seasons (Spring,) Vivaldi
 - Appalachian Spring, Copland
 - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46, Grieg
 - Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Beethoven
 - Organ Concerto No. 13 in F major, Handel
 - Dance of the Birds, Rimsky-Korsakov
 - Reflections in the Water, Debussy
 
May Flowers
- Waltz of the Flowers, Tchaikovsky
 - Amarilli Mia Bella, Caccini
 - Daisies, Rachmaninoff
 - Five Flower Songs, Britten
 - Jardins Sous La Pluie, Debussy
 - The Rose, The Lily, The Dove, The Sun
 - Waltz of the Cornflowers and Poppies, Glazunov
 - Heidenröslein, Schubert
 - Roses from the South, Strauss
 - The Tale of the Stone Flower, Prokofiev
 
Woodland June
- 5 Pieces for Piano, Op. 75, Sibelius
 - The Forest, Glazunov
 - The Tale the Pine Trees Knew, Bax
 - November Woods, Bax
 - Forest Murmurs (Siegfried,) Wagner
 - Woodland Sketches, Macdowell
 - The Five Sacred Trees, Williams
 - The Enchanted Forest, Geminiani
 - Silent Woods, Dvorak
 - A Morning in the Woods, Ornstein
 
Patriotic July
- Hail to the Chief, Sanderson
 - Lincoln Portrait, Copland
 - Presidential Polonaise, Sousa
 - Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin
 - Easter Monday on the White House Lawn, Sousa
 - The Star Spangled Banner, Smith
 - The Stars and Stripes Forever, Sousa
 - The Invincible Eagle March
 - President's March, Filmore
 - America the Beautiful, Ward
 
August Summer
- The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams
 - The Earth Prelude, Eiunadi
 - The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
 - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Debussy
 - Water Music, Handel
 - River Flows in You, Yiruma
 - Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 ("Raindrop",) Chopin
 - Become Ocean, Adams
 - A Walk in the Forest, Blech
 - The Sea, Bridge
 
September Days
- Our Town, Copland
 - Autumn Gardens, Rautavaara
 - String Quartet No. 15, Beethoven
 - November Woods, Bax
 - Symphony No. 10, Raff
 - Comes Autumn Time, Sowerby
 - The Seasons: Autumn, Glazunov
 - Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake, Wencheng
 - String Quartet in E Minor, Delius
 - Violin Concerto No. 14, Barber
 
Spooky October
- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Bach
 - Totentanz, Liszt
 - Mephisto Waltz, Liszt
 - Aquarium, Saint-Saens
 - O Fortuna, Orff
 - Gnomus, Mussorgsky
 - Night on Bald Mountain, Mussorgsky
 - Der Vampyr, Marschner
 - In the Hall of the Mountain King, Grieg
 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dukas
 - Dance of the Knights, Prokofiev
 - Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens
 - Beethoven's Silence, Cortanza
 - Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven
 - Piano Quintet in A Minor, Dvorak
 - Lacrimosa, Mozart
 - Scarbo, Ravel
 - Lake in the Moonlight, Tchaikovsky
 - Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods, Saint-Saëns
 
Calm November
- Appalachian Spring, Copland
 - Awakening, Curiale
 - New England Holidays, Ives
 - Symphony No. 3, Copland
 - The Tender Land Suite, Copland
 - Quiet City, Copland
 - Green Hills, Alwyn
 - Song for Harvest Season, Ives
 - Turkey Trot, Bernstein
 - Badinerie, Bach
 - Divertimento, Bernstein
 - Autumn, (Four Seasons) Vivaldi
 - Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Haydn
 - Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-Flat Major, Mozart
 - Kinderszenen, Schumann
 - Piano Concerto No. 3, Beethoven
 - Pilgrims, Rorem
 - English Horn Concerto, Rorem
 - Autumn Legend, Alwyn
 - Festival March, Alwyn
 
Festive December
- Carol of the Bells, Leontovych
 - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Tchaikovsky
 - Four Seasons (Winter,) Vivaldi
 - Troika, Prokofiev
 - Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Tchaikovsky
 - The Snow is Dancing, Debussy
 - Footprints in the Snow, Debussy
 - Piano Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff
 - Symphony No. 11, Raff
 - Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev
 - Ice Dance, Elfman
 - Winter Wind, Chopin
 - Alpine Symphony, Strauss
 - Sinfonia, Vivaldi
 - Winterreise, Schubert
 - Chasse-Neige, Liszt
 - The Snow Maiden, Rimsky-Korsakov
 - String Quartet in F Major, Ravel
 - Sinfonia Antarctic, Williams
 
+ BONUS FILE
This bundle has you covered with engaging listening activities, but what about visual learning? Grab this pack of 70 Composer Fact Sheet Posters as a free bonus! These calming rainbow-themed posters can also work as handouts, or resize them in your print settings for colorful flashcards.
► We know you'll love helping students create meaningful connections to classical music, so we are happy to share these free listening activities with you today!