Your composer card collection is about to get bigger! As of today, we have released ten different Composer Trading Cards… meaning your kids will have learned about ten different composers.
So, now it’s time to put their music history knowledge to the test!
In today’s post, we’re sharing two printables… a new Composer Trading Card set and a printable deck of “Snap the Composer” Playing Cards. After using all of our Composer Trading Cards to learn about the ten composers, your piano students will have a blast putting their knowledge to use in this new and exciting game!
Printable 1 – Liszt and Chopin Composer Trading Cards
Today’s composer card set includes two new composers… Liszt and Chopin. If you’ve never used our composer cards before, these cards are meant to serve as a jumping-off-point into music history exploration. Simply send one card home with your piano students and have them do a little research to complete the statistics portion on the back of the card.
When your students return to lessons the following week you can conduct a mini-history session where you discuss the composer and his or her music. Students love collecting these cards and keeping them in plastic trading card page protectors in their piano binders.
Printable 2 – “Snap The Composer” Card Game
Snap the Composer is loosely based on the card game Snap. To play Snap the Composer you will need to print out and laminate (or print on card stock) the deck of playing cards found here. Directions are below
- Two players sit opposite one another.
- Each player is dealt 16 cards. The 16 cards are placed in a stack in front of each player.
- On the count of “three”, both players flip over the top cards of their stacks.
- If the two flipped cards do not contain matching composer images, the cards are left in the playing area, and players continue flipping cards until a match is found.
- When matching composer images are flipped over, the first player to yell the composer’s name must then state one fact about the displayed composer. If the fact is correctly stated, the player winning the round collects all of the cards in the playing area and places them in her “bank”.
- Next, players continue flipping cards until another match is found.
- When all cards have been flipped from the players’ decks, the players count how many cards are in their “banks”. The player who collected the most cards wins the round.
- At this point, all of the playing cards are shuffled and then another round is played.
- Play continues for a specified number of rounds. It’s up to you!
Find all of our composer trading card sets in the Growing With WunderKeys Toolkit.
Benita says
This is awesome!!! A game about composers! I’m racing to warm up the printer! Thanks for today’s post 🙂
Andrea says
Hi Benita! Glad you’re excited about it! Hope you have fun playing it 🙂
María Laura says
This is great!! Today we are organizing a group game based class and this is going to be perfect to add to the activities. My students were looking foward to receiving the next composer card 😉
Since a member of the piano game club, my students and I were so exited that we came up with the idea of organizing a monthly game group class.
The class is getting bigger each month.
Thank you so much for making piano classes so fun! 🙂
Andrea says
Oh I love that idea Maria! What a cool way to build community in your music studio PLUS really get into theory with game-based play. So awesome – love it!
Drema says
This is fabulous!
Did you know I was really looking forward to your next set of composer cards?? Our students will love them!
I’ve been kind of waiting to start using these composer cards this year at a specific time since each month there are different aspects and areas we begin focusing on.
This month we are doing a lot of composing and I have been using Brave Sage during our composition week this week. It’s wonderful. I’m using it with my adult students to introduce them to composing as well!
Now I’m thinking, my adult students would love this bit of music history learning with these composer cards and involving their initiative to research!
Thank you so much Andrea and Trevor!
Drema says
Not only so, the snap the composer cards make it a fun way to assess what they remember! Yay!!!
Andrea says
Very cool Drema! Glad you’re getting great use out of our stuff 🙂
Roshi says
Thanks Andrea and Trevor,
You make teaching fun and easy!
With much appreciation ,
Roshi
Andrea says
Hi Roshi! So glad to hear it 🙂 Thanks for reading!
Andrea says
Thank you Roshi! Glad you’re enjoying our blog!
Stefan Joubert says
Hi Andrea, thanks so much for sharing this! It is awesome and something which we will definitely use in our annual music seminar for adults in Central London!
I am sure that it will bring lots of excitement amongst the students! Thank you so much – great ideas on your site! Simply brilliant!
Andrea says
Hi Stefan – great to hear it! Thanks for reading our blog 🙂
Saundra says
Is there a Schubert card I am missing? Some of my students are so “into” these!!