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