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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Perform warm-up routine
   • Ensure that music is fully rehearsed to the required performance standard
   • Check instrument or voice and other equipment required for the performance to ensure their reliability in performance
   • Ensure accurate tuning of instrument or voice where relevant
   • Warm up for the performance to ensure that sound production is secure from the beginning of the performance in line with work health and safety (WHS) principles
   • Use relaxation techniques to overcome performance anxiety as required
2. Execute solo elements of performance
   • Apply knowledge of the music, including musical elements and underlying intention, to enhance performance outcomes
   • Demonstrate imagination and innovation in the musical interpretation to maintain audience focus and attention
   • Use appropriate techniques to effectively realise performance style
   • Focus expressive skills to engage self, accompanist and audience in the performance
   • Respond to musical and stage or studio direction as required
   • Listen critically to own and others’ performance, and adjust own performance to produce the required sound
   • Demonstrate appropriate intonation, dynamics, phrasing, rhythm and expression to produce the required sound
   • Sustain the musical line and/or harmony as required in the style and context of performance
   • Maintain artistic and technical communication with musical director and/or accompanist(s) where relevant
3. Evaluate performance
   • Assess the success of the performance in achieving its potential, and incorporate evaluation into future performances
   • Measure performance against previous work to assess own technical and artistic development
   • Identify and note weaknesses and errors in the performance to improve future performances
   • Assess feedback from others, and use for possible adjustment to future work
   • Plan strategies for refining solo performance and technical skills based on outcome of evaluations

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

demonstrate pre-performance checks and warm-ups

perform proficiently as a soloist before an audience on at least three occasions, including:

sustaining appropriate intonation, dynamics, phrasing, rhythm and expression during the performance

listening and adjusting own performance to maintain required sound

responding to directions

using techniques to engage the audience engaging the audience

plan strategies to improve future performances.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe pre-performance warm-up techniques

explain how music knowledge is used by a soloist to enhance performance

describe features of listening critically to own and others’ performance

explain the main requirements for an effective soloist musician or singer

outline typical issues and challenges that arise in the context of performing as a soloist for audiences, and how they might be overcome

outline work health and safety (WHS) principles as they apply to performing in a range of environments.

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