Performance Indicator - ARTS.M.E.3.1.A:
Students through listening, identify the strengths and weaknesses of specific musical works and performances, including their own and others’.

Performance Indicator - ARTS.M.E.3.1.B:
Students describe the music in terms related to basic elements such as melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, form, style, etc.

Performance Indicator - ARTS.M.E.3.1.C:
Students discuss the basic means by which the voice and instruments can alter pitch, loudness, duration, and timbre.

Performance Indicator - ARTS.M.E.3.1.D:
Students describe the music’s context in terms related to its social and psychological functions and settings (e.g., roles of participants, effects of music, uses of music with other events or objects, etc.).

Performance Indicator - ARTS.M.E.3.1.E:
Students describe their understandings of particular pieces of music and how they relate to their surroundings.