(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.
3.1 Students perform, by ear, melodic tonal patterns (patterns and melodies with chromatic alterations) in major and minor tonalities (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
3.2 Students perform primary and secondary (ii, vi, vii) tonal patterns (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
3.3 Students improvise (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege) melodies and patterns, using chromatic alterations or simple modulations (e.g., major to relative/parallel minor).
3.4 Students improvise (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege) simple accompaniments to melodies.
3.5 Students use fine tuners and/or pegs to tune strings, in fifths, to an external tonal reference.
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