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- verb To
perform (music or other art) without rehearsal but on first viewing of a text.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perform music from a score without having seen the score before
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Examples
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I could sightread, score parts in my head if I didn't have an instrument handy, and sight-transpose music I'd never seen before.
Thor's Day wildelven 2009
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Everyone sightread perfectly, and we strayed away from the polyphony top-40 (Palestrina, Lassus).
Archive 2007-02-01 Celeste Winant 2007
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Everyone sightread perfectly, and we strayed away from the polyphony top-40 (Palestrina, Lassus).
Music on the horizons Celeste Winant 2007
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Starting at the preschool age, kids learned to sing in tune, then sightread and eventually take multipart dictation and compose by, say, 3rd or 4th grade.
Who Composes, 2 Lisa Hirsch 2007
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(One book, 1983) I was a classics major. (still can't sightread) I acquired fluent Portuguese in Brazil as a boy.
Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976) Miglior acque 2007
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Who knows, maybe he'll get about two subscribers from me XD So anyways, when I say partial sightread, I mean that I've done work on the solo, and
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010
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I've seen the very first riff, but other than that, it's a sightread.
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010
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Who knows, maybe he'll get about two subscribers from me XD So anyways, when I say partial sightread, I mean that I've done work on the solo, and
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010
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Who knows, maybe he'll get about two subscribers from me XD So anyways, when I say partial sightread, I mean that I've done work on the solo, and I've seen the very first riff, but other than that, it's a sightread.
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010
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I've seen the very first riff, but other than that, it's a sightread.
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report 2010
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