(c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge
(A) Tonal Aural Skills and Ear Training Students demonstrate the following abilities: matching and manipulating pitch, playing with a sense of tonality, tonal-melodic and tonal-harmonic function (horizontal/vertical relationships/functions of tonality), ear-to-hand skills, aural and kinesthetic awareness of pitch accuracy and intonation, including and related to improvisation.
2.1 Students perform, by ear, melodic tonal patterns (patterns and melodies within a one-octave scale) in major and minor tonalities (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
2.2 Students manipulate single pitches to adjust intonation and listen for “ringing tones” (resonance, sympathetic vibrations).
2.3 Students perform, by ear, primary (tonic, dominant, and subdominant) harmonic tonal patterns (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllables, then solfege).
2.4 Students improvise (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco) melodic tonal patterns (within an octave).
2.5 Students improvise (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco) harmonic tonal patterns (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
2.6 Students alter melodies and harmonies (major to minor and vice versa).
2.7 Students use fine tuners to adjust strings to match an external tonal reference.
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