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Many people might remember music grades with scales and sight-reading.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 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

When she entered NYU and had her first big audition, she botched her sight-reading despite years of practice, setting her on a different course — to teach English as a second language.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020

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

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