Johann Sebastian Bach | Free Composer Study Worksheets & Ideas

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest composers in history. We’ve rounded up free worksheets, resources, and ideas to help you form your own Bach Composer Study in your homeschool.

One of my favorite things about homeschooling is being able to incorporate the fine arts into our home. Studying about specific composers and listening to their music throughout the day has been such a fun and relaxing time in our homeschool. I thought it would be fun to do a series on some favorite composers!

What is a Composer?

A composer can be defined as “one who forms by putting together.” In the case of musical composers, the composer puts notes and instruments together to create something new and beautiful.

How to Create a Bach Composer Study

Here is how I like to create any music composer unit study:

• Pick a composer to study
• Read great books about him from the library or these Bach books on Amazon
• Listen to the music often!
• Watch videos on free on the internet
• I also like to incorporate coloring sheets, worksheets and even notebooking pages while they are listening to music.

The Charlotte Mason way of composer study is usually to take an entire term to study one composer. That would be one composer every 9-12 weeks. I prefer to do one a month or one every 6 weeks, that’s just my preference.

Free Resources to Study Bach

Below is a list of worksheets, resources and ideas for you to use to create your own Bach Composer Study.

Free Music Response Worksheets

One of the most critical steps of a composer study is to actually listen to the compositions he created. We also recommend having your homeschool students take the time to reflect on how the music made them feel. That reflection time will allow them to discover music they can enjoy for a lifetime. Be sure to grab our free music response worksheets to use with any study:

Johann Sebastian Bach Biography 

We recommend starting with a quick biography of Bach.

• Bach Biography from Enchanted Learning
• Bach Quiz from Enchanted Learning

How to Listen to Bach’s Music for Free

Here are a couple of resources to listen to Bach’s Music for free

• Johann Sebastian Bach YouTube Channel – This is free! Just turn it on and let it play all the time, during your weeks of studying Bach.
• DSO Kids has a Listen and Learn Composer section with a biography and music samples.

Bach Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Unit Studies:

If you are looking to for even more resources about Johann Sebastian Bach, then give these a try:

• Johann Sebastian Bach Homeschool Music Lesson Plans from Making Music Fun – There is a free printable music biography, create a writing assignment, word searches and other worksheets, and lots of free printable sheet music so your children can try to play Bach!
• Bach’s Big Adventure Unit and Printables from Homeschool Share
• Toccata in D printable sheet music for beginners with a link to listen/watch the beautiful piece in action from Music for Music Teachers.
• FREE Bach Poster, Printable Wordsearch and Printable Questions from Beths Notes Plus
• FREE Bach Coloring Page from Dover Publications
• Patterns in Bach is a lesson plan for high schoolers to use an experiment to Determine the mathematical patterns in JS Bach’s two movement preludes and fugues. Looks interesting!
• I love these Famous Musician Biography pages from Practical Pages. Bach is included as well as blank composer notebooking pages.
• Here is another beautiful set of Composer Notebooking Pages from Blessed Beyond a Doubt. Bach is included!