sightread

A verb used to describe the act of reading and performing a piece of music or text at first sight, without prior preparation.

• 🇩🇪Etwas (meist ein Musikstück) direkt vom Blatt lesen und dabei vortragen oder spielen, ohne vorherige Übung oder Vorbereitung.

1. Perform music from a score without prior preparation B2 formal

   To read and perform a piece of music directly from a written score without having practiced or seen it before.

   • The pianist was able to sightread the complex sonata perfectly.
   • During the audition, she was asked to sightread a piece she had never seen.
   • He practiced sightreading daily to improve his musical skills.

   🇩🇪vom Blatt spielen

• sightread past participle
• sightread past simple
• sightreading present participle
• sightreads third person singular