Less than $5 Music Composition Printables

Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

Fourteen terms related to string instruments are hidden within this word search! There is one puzzle included with four color variations, including an ink-friendly grey scale design. Choose your favorite! Answer key provided.

► It can be hard to keep track of all the dates and eras in classical music history, so we created this freebie to help you out! Grab this six-page guide of composers sorted by musical period. Birthdates, birthplaces, and their famous compositions included. Get this instant download delivered right to your inbox!

This music-note-themed program booklet template will prepare you for your next chorus or band concert! Compatible with Google Slides™, we've taken the guesswork out of the design so you can focus on the concert and, most importantly, your musicians!

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ to easily edit
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print, save or share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design feature
• Easily add important information like your school name, date, location, and time
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com.

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size and landscape orientation. To print two-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

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Use these notation printouts for students to compose their own rhythms. Included are Wholes, Halves, Quarters, and Eights, along with their corresponding rests. All notes have borders which can easily laminated then cut

In reality, there's never a BAD time to compose with your students.

Circle Songs is a PRINT AND GO activity and comes with a variety of options to use with your students in the packet. On each page, students can write notes or music alphabet letters on a set of circles.

Included in this pack are pages for:

• 2 8-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 8-beat rhythm in “4/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 8-beat melody in “4/4” time in landscape orientation 
• 1 6-beat rhythm in “3/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 6-beat melody in “3/4” time in landscape orientation

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may make copies and distribute to their students, but not to their fellow teachers/schools. You may direct your colleagues here to purchase their own set.

Catalogue: MTP-CSCP-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Choir Cliff Notes is your ultimate one-page guide to mastering the basics of music literacy! Designed specifically for choir students, this front-only cheat sheet covers all the essentials you need to navigate your sheet music with confidence.

Included:

• Diatonic Solfege: A quick reference to help you nail those scales and sightreading.
• B/W & Color Option Available
• Treble & Bass Clef Notes: Learn to recognize note names with fun memory aids from a familiar treble clef song, and bass clef rap.
• Dynamics: A clear breakdown of musical dynamics, from pianissimo to fortissimo, and everything in between.
• Note Durations: Visual examples of quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, and eighth notes to keep your rhythm sharp.
• Real Sheet Music Example: An annotated section of actual music, highlighting key elements like Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, bar lines, and measures for easy reading and practice.
• Chromatic Solfege: Includes hands signs of the chromatic solfege in order for students to reference.
• Key Signature: Teaches students to identify key signature quickly and easily.

Keep this guide in your binder for quick reference before rehearsal or performances, and never miss a beat!

Creativity abounds! Have this blank sheet music on hand or for a specific lesson. This standard manuscript layout has a variety of background designs and clipart. Pick the perfect one or let each student choose their own.

Notation lessons are on the way, but this is a great resource for a student learning to read music/compose, or to become familiarized with manuscript pages. No pressure! Also great for the youngest students to just draw circles, lines, and color in any way they can imagine.

► 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!

Think your kids know rhythms? Challenge them with matching familiar italiano verbiage in the form of Pizza Rhythms, a printable worksheet for your students!

There are four rhythms that line the sheet (variations of quarter and eighth note pairs) along with terminology on the side. Which italian phrase (topping, style, etc) matches the rhythm? Simply identify and ask the students to write it down, easy as a pizza pie!

If you're singing "Rain, Rain, Go Away", that would be a perfect time to write some songs using these Cloud Composition pages!

Cloud Compositions is a PRINT AND GO activity and comes with a variety of options to use with your students in the packet. On each page, students can write notes or music alphabet letters on a set of clouds.

Included in this pack are pages for:

• 2 8-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 8-beat rhythm in “4/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 8-beat melody in “4/4” time in landscape orientation 
• 1 6-beat rhythm in “3/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 6-beat melody in “3/4” time in landscape orientation

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may make copies and distribute to their students, but not to their fellow teachers/schools. You may direct your colleagues here to purchase their own set.

Catalogue: MTP-CLCP-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Piano Cliff Notes is your one-page, front-only cheat sheet to piano essentials, perfect for students just starting out or those needing a quick refresher! This guide covers the core basics of piano playing and music literacy, ensuring you're always prepared at the keyboard.
Included:

• B/W & Color Option Available
• Finger Numbers: A simple diagram showing which fingers correspond to numbers (1-5) for both hands, making hand positioning easy.
• Treble & Bass Clef Notes: Clear visuals of note names on both staves, helping you read music with confidence.
• Rhythm Durations: Quick references for quarter, half, whole notes, and more to keep your timing spot on.
• Notes on a Staff: Identify notes on the grand staff with mnemonic devices to remember their placements.
• Notes on the Piano: A piano keyboard graphic showing note names, helping you connect what you read on the staff to what you play.
• Dynamics: A guide to understanding musical dynamics, from soft to loud, with examples like piano, forte, and crescendo.

Tuck this guide into your piano binder for a handy reference before lessons or practice sessions, and take the guesswork out of reading and playing music!

Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

Fifteen musical terms are hidden within! Clef, sequence, theme, note, key, and more. There is one puzzle included with four color variations, including an ink-friendly greyscale design. Choose your favorite! Answer key provided.

► It can be hard to keep track of all the dates and eras in classical music history, so we created this freebie to help you out! Grab this six-page guide of composers sorted by musical period. Birthdates, birthplaces, and their famous compositions included. Get this instant download delivered right to your inbox!

In a fast-paced game geared up to get your upper level elementary school students excited, we present to you "Write the Room - EMOJI Edition!"

The game is simple as ever. Scattered around your music room are 12 rhythms (which you can cut out and affix anywhere you'd like) with a corresponding emoji attached to the rhythm.

You will make teams (or play individually!) and a pair of students from each team.

You will then play a sound clip for all of the students to hear. Their job is to listen to the clip, think of the rhythm in their head, and race around the room to find the emoji with the rhythm that they just heard!

The students race back to the board and presses on the emoji they think they heard (there will be a multiple choice of three rhythms, which one of them is the correct on). You will advance the slide and the correct emoji rhythm will turn green.

Play this through 12 rounds and keep score of which team wins or you can do it as an individual assessment. The kids LOVE this as they are assessing themselves by listening to the rhythm, remembering it, and identifying it somewhere in the room.

Have a great time with this one!

Let your students' creativity explode with this firework-themed composing worksheet set - Explosive Etudes!

Explosive Etudes is a PRINT AND GO activity and comes with a variety of options to use with your students in the packet. Part of this set is from The July Piano Book.

On each page, students can write notes or music alphabet letters on a set of explosions.

Included in this pack are pages for:

• 2 8-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 8-beat rhythm in “4/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 8-beat melody in “4/4” time in landscape orientation 
• 1 6-beat rhythm in “3/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 6-beat melody in “3/4” time in landscape orientation

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may make copies and distribute to their students, but not to their fellow teachers/schools. You may direct your colleagues here to purchase their own set.

Catalogue: MTP-EECP-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

One composer. Ten words. Three styles. Pick & print your favorite! Use a timer for a race through musical history or as an independent activity.

♫ "Study Bach. There you will find everything." - Johannes Brahms ♫

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► 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!

Switching gears into November, we present to you "Thanksgiving Rhythm Compositions" for your students!

Included are two printable and reproducable 8.5x11" sheets with 9 thanksgiving themed rhythms on them. Print these out and use to have students, groups of students, or even teachers and interns compose their own rhythms!

• Compose the rhythms however you wish... 2 beats long, 4 beats long, 8 beats long, etc
  • Speak it out (to themselves and the class)
  • Play it out (rhythm sticks, drums, etc)
  • Mix it up
  • Collaborate with others
  • Turn it into a round, a canon, a two part, etc

Print, cut, and go! Included rhythms are quarter note, eighth note pairs, triplets, and four sixteenth note

Warm your kids up to composing their own songs with out pack of composing worksheets - Sunshine Songs!

Sunshine Songs is a PRINT AND GO activity and comes with a variety of options to use with your students in the packet. Part of this set is from The June Piano Book.

On each page, students can write notes or music alphabet letters on a set of suns.

Included in this pack are pages for:

• 2 8-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 8-beat rhythm in “4/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 8-beat melody in “4/4” time in landscape orientation 
• 1 6-beat rhythm in “3/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 6-beat melody in “3/4” time in landscape orientation

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may make copies and distribute to their students, but not to their fellow teachers/schools. You may direct your colleagues here to purchase their own set.

Catalogue: MTP-SUCP-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Creativity abounds! Have this blank sheet music on hand, or for a specific lesson. There are several different layouts included, and a few different line sizes - geared specifically toward younger composers who may need bigger spaces to make notations in.

Notation lessons are on the way, but this is a great resource for a student learning to read music/compose, or to become familiarized with manuscript pages.

No pressure! Also great for the youngest students to just draw circles, lines, and color in any way they can imagine.

► 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!

Think your kids know rhythms? Challenge them with matching familiar their favorite drive thru verbiage in the form of Fast Food Rhythms, a printable worksheet for your students!

There are four rhythms that line the sheet (variations of quarter and eighth note pairs) along with terminology on the side. Which fast food phrase (restaurant, entree, side dish, etc) matches the rhythm? Simply identify and ask the students to write it down, easy as ordering a frosty!

Do you have a special someone you want to write a song for or looking for that quick Love or Valentines Day themed composing activity? Look no further!

Love Songs is a PRINT AND GO activity and comes with a variety of options to use with your students in the packet. Part of this set is from The February Piano Book.

On each page, students can write notes or music alphabet letters on a set of hearts.

Included in this pack are pages for:

• 2 8-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “4/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “4/4” time
• 2 8-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 2 8-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat rhythms in “3/4” time
• 1 16-beat melodies in “3/4” time
• 1 8-beat rhythm in “4/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 8-beat melody in “4/4” time in landscape orientation 
• 1 6-beat rhythm in “3/4” time in landscape orientation
• 1 6-beat melody in “3/4” time in landscape orientation

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may make copies and distribute to their students, but not to their fellow teachers/schools. You may direct your colleagues here to purchase their own set.

Catalogue: MTP-LSCP-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Think your kids know rhythms? Challenge them with matching familiar car/truck and auto verbiage in the form of Automotive Rhythms, a printable worksheet for your students!

There are four rhythms that line the sheet (variations of quarter and eighth note pairs) along with terminology on the side. Which automotive phrase (part, brand, accessory, etc) matches the rhythm? Simply identify and ask the students to write it down, easy as ordering flooring it down the autobon!

Give your students a gourd-fully good way to work on their chords this fall with these NO PREP chord spelling worksheets: CHORD GOURDS!

CHORD GOURDS is a set of 21 worksheets that feature 6-12 gourds on each page with different types of chords for students to spell out and work on this fall. To make sure you can use this resource with different levels, we've included pages that use Major Chords, Minor Chords, Augmented Chords, and Diminished Chords! For an added bonus, we've included enharmonic names for the "black-key" chords as well.

So what's inside the resource?? You'll find the following pages:

1. Major Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Sharp Chords
2. Major Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Flat Chords
3. Major Chord Gourds: 6 White Key Chords 
4. Major Chord Gourds: 5 Sharp Chords and 1 White Key Chord
5. Major Chord Gourds: 5 Flat Chords and 1 White Key Chord
6. Minor Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Sharp Chords
7. Minor Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Flat Chords
8. Minor Chord Gourds: 6 White Key Chords 
9. Minor Chord Gourds: 5 Sharp Chords and 1 White Key Chord
10. Minor Chord Gourds: 5 Flat Chords and 1 White Key Chord
11. Augmented Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Sharp Chords
12. Augmented Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Flat Chords
13. Augmented Chord Gourds: 6 White Key Chords 
14. Augmented Chord Gourds: 5 Sharp Chords and 1 White Key Chord
15. Augmented Chord Gourds: 5 Flat Chords and 1 White Key Chord
16. Diminished Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Sharp Chords
17. Diminished Chord Gourds: all 12 Chords with Flat Chords
18. Diminished Chord Gourds: 6 White Key Chords 
19. Diminished Chord Gourds: 5 Sharp Chords and 1 White Key Chord
20. Diminished Chord Gourds: 5 Flat Chords and 1 White Key Chord
21. Big Blank Chord Gourd

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Catalog: MTP-CGWS-DG

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