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Music as language: sight playing through access to a complete musical vocabulary.
This article was inspired by a request to be on a panel addressing the above topic for a local MTA meeting. My first concern is with what exactly we, mean by the term "sight reading"--is this something that is done only in one's mind? If someone is writing words on a chalkboard in front of you, you are probably reading along as they am writing, but you probably are not reading out loud. Would it be more aptly called "sight playing, "which involves both the mental process to see and recognize musical patterns on the page, as well as the technical means to produce those patterns on the instrument? Have you ever asked a student to "read" through a new piece and watched them ...
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