Early on in my stint teaching 'A' level music, I wrote a 23 page, bullet point music history summary for my students. This is a useful, at-a-glance background provider. To this, I added a tabular musical period summary - leading composers, most popular genres, main features of harmony, texture - stuff like that is ever so handy when doing listening exercises, in particular.
These are Word documents, but I also have a nifty piece of software that will turn them into Acrobat .pdf files for those without Word.
I will send copies of the docs to anyone who pm's me with an email address.
Steve
