Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who reads at sight (something usually requiring previous study); specifically, a musician who can accurately sing or play musical notes on first seeing them, without previous study or practice.
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- noun A person who is able to
sightread
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Examples
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Here is Golding, shuffling around in his old naval clothes, indulging in amateur dramatics, drinking heavily, forever tempted by glamorous 20-year-olds on American college campuses, and furiously practising the piano, "an inexorable sight-reader".
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'Well, as to that, he doesn't what you may call PLAY, but he's the best sight-reader in this district, bar me.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899
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Lemoyne (who was a perfectly good sight-reader) begged that he might not be condemned to spoil another's performance.
Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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_Can teach or play violin in musical family; _ sight-reader in classical works.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In later life his fluency as sight-reader and score-reader was much vaunted, and among his recordings is a fine account of his own
signandsight.com 2010
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Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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