SS's Vocal Sky Blue Ribbons must successfully demonstrate:

• Warm-up (develop a regular physical warm-up sequence of 3-5 mins. of stretches and physical exercises; develop a regular vocal warm-up sequence of 2-3 mins. of vocal warm-up)
• Posture (physical preparation and alignment; mental posturing)
• Respiration (intercostals breathing/control of rib cage, staccato and breath control)
• Phonation (glides and diphthongs)
• Resonant tone production (sequence of vowels: [i, e, a, o, u]; melismatic vocalism--Vaccai on vowels alone)
• Diction (demonstrate aspirate h and wh; Italian vowels; Italian dentalized consonant [t])
• Expression (communicating ideas in a foreign language)
• The Scale: Manca sollecita
• Intervals of Thirds: Semplicetta tortorella
• Intervals of Fourths: Lascia il lido
• Intervals of Fifths: Avvezzo a vivere
• PST: Exercises for Intonation: #23-26 Major & Minor Triads, Dominant & Diminished Sevenths
• Repertoire as assigned
• Note value order (eighths and up)
• Italian terms
• Ledger lines
• Rest value order
• Major 5-finger patterns (A,E,B-flat)
• Intervals: 6th, 7th, 8ve
• Minor 5-finger patterns (A,E,B-flat)
• D Major scale
• Primary triads
• Music terms & signs
• Note value rule (2 of a kind)
• D Major key signature
• Roman numerals (I, IV, V)
• Note value rule (3 of a kind)