SS's Vocal Tan Ribbons must successfully demonstrate:

• 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
• Sequence