
Udtaisuk and some other authors prefer the use of the more specific terms "sight-playing" and "sight-singing" where applicable. the conversion of musical information from sight to sound". People in music literature commonly use the term "sight-reading" generically for "the ability to read and produce both instrumental and vocal music at first sight. Both activities require the musician to play or sing the notated rhythms and pitches. Sight-singing is used to describe a singer who is sight-reading.



In music, sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before. Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1594–96)
