Download Free Lesson Packet: Compose Form AABA

Lesson: Here’s a fun group activity combining language arts and math to compose your own 32 bar Form AABA song on ukulele! 

Target Grade/Subject: 4th-12th Grade Music 

Essential questions or objectives: 

• Who are George and Ira Gershwin?
• How many measures are there in musical Form AABA? 
• What instruments make up the Rhythm Section? 

Concepts or skills that provide the purpose for this lesson: 
Knowledge of multiplication, fractions, vocabulary, grammar, poetry and traditional rhyme schemes. 

VA SOL – 4th GRADE (Language Arts) 
4.1: The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings. 

• Contribute to group discussions. 
• Seek the ideas and opinions of others. 

4.6: The student will read a variety of poetry. 

• Describe the rhyme scheme. 
• Write rhymed, unrhymed, and patterned poetry. 

VA SOL – 4th GRADE (Mathematics)
4.4 = The student will: 

• Estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients of whole numbers. 
• Add, subtract, and multiply whole numbers. 
• Divide whole numbers, finding quotients with and without remainders. 
• Solve single-step and multistep addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems with whole numbers.

Video Ex 1: The Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" with Grey Garrett on vocal and Samson Trinh on ukulele.


Video Ex 2: Form AABA composed and performed by teachers at Uke 'n' Roll's workshop hosted by University of Richmond's Partners in the Arts summer program.



Download Free Lesson Packet: Compose Form AABA