Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, vocal sight-reading., See sight-reader.

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Examples

  • You must study solfège sight-singing, analysis, harmony—and it's all obligatory, in order to go on to the next stage.

    A Classicist in the Modern Age Stuart Isacoff 2012

  • If you'd like to sing with a great group and you have strong sight-singing skills, it might be the group for you.

    California Bach Society Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • If you'd like to sing with a great group and you have strong sight-singing skills, it might be the group for you.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • It must, however, be ever borne in mind, that the system professes only to teach sight-singing, or, in other words, the power of reading music.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • In the case of sight-singing, the mental picture has to be immediately translated into action, it is the essence of the proceeding.

    Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

  • The vocal drill, oral or written, will train the eye and ear for sight-singing, and the sight-singing be a practical application of correct vocal drill.

    The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

  • To this same monk we are indebted, however, for the invention of the syllables (UT, RE, MI, etc.) which (in a somewhat modified form) are so widely used for sight-singing purposes.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • These terms are also often applied to classes in sight-singing which use the sol-fa syllables.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • For _sight-singing purposes_ the chromatic scale [20] is usually written by representing the intermediate tones in ascending by sharps,

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • _ -- In writing chromatic scales from this sight-singing standpoint the student is urged to adopt a three-step process; first, writing the major diatonic scale both ascending and descending; second, marking the half-steps; third, inserting accidental notes calling for the intermediate tones.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

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