Celebrate music, singing, songwriting, instruments, and all things music-related using these fun music writing prompts.
Not only do these writing prompts about music instill a love for writing, they promote critical thinking, improve writing skills, and deepen music appreciation.
Additionally, these prompts encourage students to free write about their favorite songs, artists, and/or musical genres.
Whether you teach choir, musical theater, or something in between, your students will enjoy responding to these music writing prompts.
Music Writing Prompts
Following you will find a variety of music writing prompts that can be used for various writing activities.
1. What is your favorite genre of music and why?
2. In what ways does music help people to relax?
3. Tell about any musical instruments that you would like to learn and why.
4. What are your top three favorite songs? Explain what you like about each song.
5. Who is your favorite artist or band of all time and why?
6. Describe a recent live concert that you attended.
7. Explain how music is a form of art.
8. If your family members started a band, which instruments would everyone play and why?
9. What do you do when you listen to music? Write about your music-listening routine.
10. Explain what you like about your favorite musical medium.
11. Write the lyrics to an original song. It should include several verses and a chorus.
12. Explain the difference between a half note and an eighth note.
13. Compare and contrast a soprano voice and a tenor.
14. Describe how music makes the world a better place.
15. Imagine that you are an internationally famous pop star. Describe a day in your life.
16. Do you prefer to make music or to listen to music? Explain.
17. Imagine that you are transformed into a musical instrument. Which instrument would you choose to become and why?
18. Research suggests that listening to classical music boosts brain power. Do you think that listening to other genres of music provides the same benefits? Why or why not?
19. An alien lands on earth and requests to hear a song. What song would you play to help the alien better understand the people of earth?
20. What are the benefits of responding to music writing prompts?
21. Why do you think that music was important to early humans?
22. Write about the ways that music shapes your life.
23. Which musical instrument do you think requires the most skill? What makes the instrument more difficult to learn compared to other instruments?
25. Which musical instrument do you think is the easiest to learn? Why?
26. Tell everything you know about one type of traditional music from a particular region of the world.
27. You are hired to interview your favorite band for a music magazine. Create a list of interview questions and then answer them from the perspective of the band members.
28. Pretend that you need to select three albums to place in a time capsule. The albums need to help people from the future understand what life is like now. What albums would you select and why?
29. Do you think people can still understand the emotions or mood of a song even if it’s not in their language? Explain your thinking.
30. What is the earliest song you can remember hearing? Where did you hear it, and how did it make you feel?
31. Write an article for the school newsletter offering tips to students about how to deal with stage fright.
32. If you could go back in time to experience a specific musical event, what event would you want to experience and why?
33. Write about a song that instantly makes you happy every time you hear it. Explain why the song lifts your mood.
34. Write a critical review of a recent album. What made the album good or bad? Provide an overall rating for the album at the end of the review.
35. Tell about a song that makes you sad. Why does it make you feel this way?
36. Explain how song writers are like poets.
37. How does responding to music writing prompts deepen music appreciation?
38. Describe what a perfect music classroom looks and feels like.
39. Summarize your favorite song.
40. Write a diary entry from the perspective of a guitar.
41. Design a bumper sticker to advertise music appreciation.
42. Write a “recipe for a good song.” Tell the ingredients, measurements, and provide instructions.
Final Thoughts: Music Writing Prompts
Now you’re ready to pencil into your lesson plans this week a few of these fun music writing prompts.
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