If you’re looking to revamp your music classroom and spruce up your wall displays, we’ve put together a list of 10 music classroom posters that you can download for free.
From motivational graphics and musical elements posters to handy shortcuts for your computer area and themed listening calendars, here’s a quick summary of what you can find in this post:
- Get Playing! from Music Mark
- GarageBand Keyboard Shortcuts
- MuseScore Keyboard Shortcuts
- Dorico Keyboard Shortcuts
- Sibelius Keyboard Shortcuts
- Noteflight Keyboard Shortcuts
- Musical Elements posters from BBC Ten Pieces
- 5 Reasons to Study Music from Halsbury Travel
- Black History Month Composers Posters
- Women’s History Month Composer Poster
1. Get Playing! Poster from Music Mark
Whether it’s singing, creating, playing an instrument, or enjoying listening to music, evidence shows that engaging with music from a young age has many benefits. Plus, it’s great fun!
Get Playing is a national campaign by Music Mark which celebrates some of the amazing benefits of musical learning.
Music Mark has created a free A3 music classroom poster which celebrates these benefits with 10 fun and colourful illustrations, as well as a QR code to scan and take you straight to the Get Playing page and the Music Service finder tool. It can be downloaded in both English and Welsh.
2. Musical Elements Posters
BBC Ten Pieces have created a range of stylish free posters to display in your music classroom.
These ‘Elements of Music’ posters are available as 3 options: colour; black and white; black and white to colour in.
3. GarageBand Keyboard Shortcuts Posters
If your department houses a Mac Suite your students will find these GarageBand posters with the most common shortcuts, useful for getting around the programme quickly.
4. MuseScore Keyboard Shortcuts Posters
MuseScore is a popular notation programme (it’s free!) and your students can navigate it with ease with these shortcut posters by their side.
5. Dorico Keyboard Shortcuts Posters
Steinberg have created these handy Dorico quick reference cards and A3 poster, both available to download and print or share digitally.
If you’re new to Dorico and what to give it a go, did you know that Dorico SE is completely free to use?
6. Sibelius Keyboard Shortcuts Posters
For Sibelius notation software users, our set of 3 A4 posters display the main shortcuts for both PCs and Macs.
7. Noteflight Keyboard Shortcuts Posters
Students using the cloud-based Noteflight notation programme can have these useful shortcuts close to hand with our free posters. Why not display near your computer suite or laminate to create a mousepad?
8. 5 Reasons to Study Music Poster from Halsbury Travel
Are you trying to encourage more students to take their music studies further, perhaps to GCSE, A Level and beyond? Halsbury Travel have created this 5 reasons to study music poster – all are sought-after transferable skills that your students may not have considered music could help them develop.
9. Black History Month Composer Posters
Our popular Black History Month Listening Calendars celebrate the music of 62 inspiring composers. Scan the QR codes to access the playlists and explore a diverse range of music!
You could build listening activity around the featured composers, set a research task or ask students to create their own playlists.
10. Women’s History Month Composer Poster
Women’s History Month is celebrated in March and our themed women composers listening calendar poster is a great way to explore the music of female composers. Scan the QR code to access the dedicated playlist and get listening!
