Usually means: Reading music notation in real-time.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word sight-reading:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sight-reading: Merriam-Webster
  2. sight-reading: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sight-reading, sight-reading: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sight-reading: Wordnik
  5. sight-reading: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sight-reading: Dictionary.com
  7. Sight-reading: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. sight-reading: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. sight-reading, Sight-reading: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Sight-reading)

▸ noun:  In music, sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning, "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before.


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