SS's Vocal Orange Ribbons must successfully demonstrate:

• Practice Routine
• Tips for Productive Practice
• Beginning Warm-up
• Physical Stretches (2 - 3 mins.): Gentle Head Rolls, Neck Tension Releaser, Shoulder Rolls, Rib StretchFull Roll-Down, Chewing, Self-Massage
• Warm-up Vocalization (3 - 5 mins.): Slides, Lip Trills, Sliding Warm-Up, Humming
• Vocal Technique (10 - 20 mins.): Major/Minor Triplet for Flexibility, Extended Five-note Pattern for Flexibility and Breath, Two Fives and a Nine for Flexibility, Range, and Breath, Legato Flexibility Exercise (2 major arpeggios on I and U), Long Tones for Vowel Equalization and Breath Extension, Octave Arpeggio for Range Extension and Flexibility
• Song Study: Seven Steps to Learning a New Song
• Cool down: Mental Practicing, Imagery Exercise, Breathing for Relaxation
• Maintaining Your Vocal Health: Advice, Possible Causes of Vocal Maladies
• Marking for Voice Conservation: What to Do When Marking, What to Avoid When Marking
• Complete Seven Steps to Learning a New Song and commit at least 4 songs to memory
• Eighth notes (single and beamed)
• Half and whole steps
• Italian terms
• Eighth rest Use of accidentals
• Drawing accidentals on staff
• 2 of a kind rule
• Major triads (C G D F)
• Respiration (introduce vocal exercises for breath management)
• Phonation (breathy vs. pressed onset; coordinated onset)
• Resonant tone production (sequence of vowels: [i, e, a, o, u]; melismatic vocalism--Vaccai on vowels alone; legato and portamento)
• Diction (Italian pronunciation rules, primary and secondary syllabic stress)
• Expression (demonstrate six levels of dynamic change, crescendo/decrescendo, messa di voce)
• Intervals of Sixths: Bella prova
• Intervals of Sevenths: Fra l'ombre un lampo
• Intervals of Octaves: Quell'onda
• The Semitones: Delira dubbiosa
• Syncopation: Nel contrasto Amor
• Melisma: Come il candore
• Appoggiaturas, Above and Below: Senza l'amabile
• Acciaccatura: Benché di senso privo
• Mordente: La gioia verace; L'augelletto in lacci stretto
• Optional additional studies:
  Preparing for the Turn: Quando accende
  The Turn: Più non si trovano
  Preparing for the Shake: Se poverro il ruscello
  Melismas: Siam navi all' onde algenti
  Portamenti: Vorrei spiegar l'affano; O placid oil mare
  Recitative: La Patria
  Recapitulation: Alla stagion de fiori
• PST: #27 Messa di Voce
• PST: #28-32 Portamento: Seconds through Octaves
• Repertoire as assigned
• A & E Major scales
• Note & rest value order
• Dynamic Italian terms
• Repetition
• Key signatures (A E B-flat E-flat)
• B-flat and E-flat Major scales
• Scale degree names (tonic, subdominant, dominant)
• Authentic cadence
• Order of notes (two of a kind)
• Plagal cadence
• Common time
• 'A' natural/harmonic minor scale
• Half cadence
• Italian tempos
• 6/8 time signature
• SequenceMinor triads
• Major scale pattern
• 3 of a kind rule
• Key signatures (C G F)