sightread

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

• 🇨🇳动词，指未经事先准备，直接视谱阅读并演奏或演唱音乐作品，或朗读文本。

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.

   🇨🇳视奏

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