Associations to the word «Sightread»

Wiktionary

SIGHTREAD, verb. To perform (music or other art) without rehearsal but on first viewing of a text.

Dictionary definition

SIGHTREAD, verb. Perform music from a score without having seen the score before; "He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope