sight-read
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of sight-read
First recorded in 1900–05
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“It’s not one of those parts where you can just, if you’re a good player, sight-read it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
He attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, learned to sight-read and essentially taught himself the skills of a master guitarist.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
He can sight-read multisyllabic words, but he can’t always figure out why a character in a story acted the way they did.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2020
In the last years of her life, when she had macular degeneration, it was sad because she could never sight-read in that same way that she could when I was a child.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
They could not help him sight-read a new tune from scratch.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
For 15-year-old violinist Emily James, sight-reading the notes and memorising techniques have also translated to increased ability in the classroom.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
"In this exam: She needs to play three pieces by memory, two pieces read music, technique requirements in major, minor scales, ear training, sight-reading, rhythm clap back, listening and playback and etc."
From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2021
The performances he attended and went through the motions of conducting were with pickup orchestras made up of rather unmotivated Viennese musicians sight-reading this new, incredibly complicated and challenging music on only one rehearsal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020
“Eight services a week with different music at every one brings the sight-reading skills up pretty high,” he says now.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2018
He began with sight-reading and mastering basic rhythms and pitches that gradually increased step by step to become more complex, sometimes by adding only one new note or rhythmic value at a time.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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