Assessments of students should reflect their achievement in the following areas. FORM is the overall structural organization of a musical composition and the interrelationships of musical events within the overall structure. Web Pages Including Lesson Plans. The above matrix can be easily constructed from railroad tag and blackk masking tape. 8 to 10 grids would be enough to use for an entire class.
Lamination is suggested.
Divide the class into groups of four to work at each matrix. Give each group about 8 black discs to be used to represent all sounded beats. Have groups use cooperative learning to decide where the discs should be placed. Practice each side of the composition by clapping or patting a sound for each black disc and resting on the empty cells in the matrix. A different sixteen beat pattern is crated on each side of the matrix.