Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set personal goals for extending own aural-perception skills
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, identify the applications of aural-perception skills most relevant to own music practice
- Determine how own mastery of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic music structures can be improved
- Identify the genres and styles in own music practice that need attention in the context of refining aural-perception skills
- Prepare a plan for own skill development, including a timeline and criteria for measuring improvements
- Discuss plan with appropriate personnel and incorporate feedback as required
- Expand methods for the aural recognition of music
- Analyse conventions of language and terminology in the context of improving own aural-perception skills
- Expand ways of hearing music, as well as listening for and naming relevant music structures
- Expand knowledge of music-writing conventions connected with aural skill development
- Explore more advanced rhythmic, melodic and harmonic structures connected with aural skill development
- Apply improved aural-perception skills to own music practice
- Evaluate own skill development
- Monitor own progress against personal goals and skill-development plan
- Discuss progress of skill development with appropriate personnel and act on feedback as required
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses as a means of improving own work
- Evaluate overall effectiveness of learning methods in the expansion of aural-perception skills