(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.
1.1 Students perform, by ear, melodic tonal patterns (simple patterns and melodies within a tetrachord), in major and minor tonalities (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
1.2 Students identify whether two performed melodic tonal patterns are the same or different.
1.3 Students correctly associate the words high and low with relative pitch differences (e.g., with the use of Curwen hand symbols and vocal solfege).
1.4 Students correctly identify the direction of melodic motion (with a tetrachord).
1.5 Students alter melodies and harmonies (major-to-minor, minor-to-major).
1.6 Students perform, by ear, primary (tonic and dominant) harmonic tonal patterns (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
1.7 Students improvise (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco) melodic tonal patterns (within a tetrachord; neutral syllable, then solfege).
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