You'll find him a very pleasant violinist who can also sight-read [vom Blatt lesen kann] very well;--no one in Vienna has played my quartets a vista as well as he has;--besides, he is the best fellow in the whole world, who will be delighted to make some musique with you whenever you like.
She expresses significant consternation at being pressured to sight-read challenging music with Schneer, without notice, in front of the guests:
Squinting through his cigarette smoke, he could
sight-read a complex new score by Stravinsky as if it were a familiar piece, his pudgy hands flat on the keyboard of an upright piano.
Additionally, they felt that the inclusion of courtesy accidentals would make it easier to
sight-read, but these are small and nitpicky requests.
Any members of the RLPC have to be able to
sight-read music at the highest level.
It is perhaps too simple to state that "good sight-readers
sight-read." In my experience, this is all too true.
The lunchtime performance might have been cancelled due to the illness of two members had not Virginia Commonwealth University student Marcus Redden and IHS President Frank Lloyd stepped in to
sight-read a challenging program.
The pieces increase in difficulty, and really only the first few on each side of the collection would be easy for an intermediate-level student to
sight-read. There is great opportunity for students to improve their voicing skills, dynamic musicality and rhythmic stability.
One of the most important skills an accompanist must possess is the ability to
sight-read. Music must be learned quickly because accompanists are either given scores shortly before rehearsals begin, or they are expected to read on the spot.
Hannah is in her 3rd year and she
sight-read it almost perfectly.
At slightly slower tempos than marked, the duets are great as sight-reading studies: my student managed to hang on to his seat in the flashy top part, which exploits the full range of the clarinet up to G6, and the rhythms, while not modern, pushed him to subdivide, especially thirty-second notes; although primarily a saxophonist, I found the scoring and the range in the bottom line, the supporting role and mostly chalumeau throughout, comfortable to
sight-read. Many of these duets would make excellent recital or performance pieces, and I found myself practicing them in my free time to maintain my technique.
