to sight-sing

Examples

• All

• The practice of sight-singing within choral groups has also grown less common in recent years.

  Academic text (2003)

• When I taught sight-singing as a middle-school choral director, I generally had the chorus sight-read as a group.

  Academic text (1999)

• But, as simple sailors after all, these men have little experience in sight singing, and the poor Boatswain's Mate soon falls behind the others.

  Academic text (2000)

• We have had great success teaching our students sight-singing using our version of notational audiation.

  Academic text (2006)

• One simple assignment is for students to compose a melody that the class will be able to sight-sing.

  Academic text (1997)

• During the music class, the teacher asked the students to sight-sing the new piece without any practice.

• To improve her vocal skills, she learned to sight-sing challenging compositions straight from the sheet music.

• In the audition, each performer was required to sight-sing a short melody to show their reading ability.

Synonyms

S

to sightsing

vsto sight-sing

• Specialized

9.9

Sing from sheet music without having seen it before

is identical in meaning and stresses lack of earlier rehearsal

S

to sightread

vsto sight-sing

• Specialized

7.9

Play a piece of music from written notes without practicing first

focuses on singing specifically rather than any performance type

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology