1. perform music from a score without having seen the score before; - Example: "He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread" [syn: sightread, sight-read]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sight-read
v 1: perform music from a score without having seen the score
before; "He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread"
[syn: sightread, sight-read]