sight-read

How To Use sight-read In A Sentence

• Then we look for basic ability to sight-read tonal music i.e., in the classical style of Bach, Brahms or traditional folk song. The Master of Many Choruses
• But," he said, "the more you play auditions the less you have to sight-read, because at this point I know 85% to 90% of the songs people bring me. Didn't Get That Role? Don't Blame the Piano Player
• Emily put the piece back on the stand and sight-read the music with the rest of the band.
• And after the applicants sing arias in the vocal style of a soloist, they are asked to sight-read the selection with a more self-effacing choral tone. The Master of Many Choruses
• The result was that the choir sight-read through the entire piece of music, and then performed it.
• Von Otter, a patrician blonde with a voice of arctic whiteness, gamely sight-read a tribal incantation and a refrain about rowing out to the reef to fish, both written in some outlandish language.
• She can sight-read, and though she misses a note here and there, I am certain that, in her head, she knows how it should sound.
• Nor is he merely sight-reading based on familiarity, as he was tested by writing down some simple phrases which he could not have known in advance.
• I can sight-read a medium ballad, but have never had to develop my reading beyond a rudimentary level.
• And while I come from a family that is very musical, it takes me about an hour or two to sight-read a sheet of music.