NCES.8.MU.ML.2 - Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music.
- NCES.8.MU.ML.2.1 - Interpret standard musical notation for whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures.
- NCES.8.MU.ML.2.2 - Interpret, through instrument and/or voice, standard notation symbols in two different clefs, using extended staves.
- NCES.8.MU.ML.2.3 - Use standard symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression to notate musical ideas.