leitura harmônica

English translation: harmonic reading

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Portuguese term or phrase:leitura harmônica
English translation:harmonic reading
Entered by: Lilian Magalhães

13:41 Jan 28, 2015
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / faculdade de música
Portuguese term or phrase: leitura harmônica
Desenvolvimento de habilidades de acompanhamento e leitura harmônica ao teclado.
Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 11:34
harmonic reading
Explanation:
Harmonic reading is not common, but it is used as a counterpart to melodic reading. Sight reading is more general, and would be referred to as leitura à primeira vista in Portuguese. For instance, see the curriculum of this music school in NY: Posture, Breathing Techniques, Embouchure, Fingering, Warm Ups, Rhythmic Counting, Melodic/Harmonic Reading (Treble or Bass Clefs), Sight Reading, Ear Training, Scales (Major, Minor, Chromatic), Chords (Block or Arpegios), Instumental Care, Practice Habits, Basic Music Theory http://hvcfa.com/deptmusic.html.

In Portuguese, see the example of the requirements for an audition for Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Leitura à primeira vista: melódica na 1ª. ou 2ª. posição/Leitura harmônica (cifras) http://www.comperve.ufrn.br/conteudo/musica/tecnico2011/docu...

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Note added at 54 mins (2015-01-28 14:35:33 GMT)
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Another term that just occurred to me is chord reading. It sounds better... :)
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Beatriz Baker Méio
United States
Local time: 10:34
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3 +2harmonic reading
Beatriz Baker Méio
4sight reading
Juliet Attwater


  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
harmonic reading


Explanation:
Harmonic reading is not common, but it is used as a counterpart to melodic reading. Sight reading is more general, and would be referred to as leitura à primeira vista in Portuguese. For instance, see the curriculum of this music school in NY: Posture, Breathing Techniques, Embouchure, Fingering, Warm Ups, Rhythmic Counting, Melodic/Harmonic Reading (Treble or Bass Clefs), Sight Reading, Ear Training, Scales (Major, Minor, Chromatic), Chords (Block or Arpegios), Instumental Care, Practice Habits, Basic Music Theory http://hvcfa.com/deptmusic.html.

In Portuguese, see the example of the requirements for an audition for Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Leitura à primeira vista: melódica na 1ª. ou 2ª. posição/Leitura harmônica (cifras) http://www.comperve.ufrn.br/conteudo/musica/tecnico2011/docu...

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Note added at 54 mins (2015-01-28 14:35:33 GMT)
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Another term that just occurred to me is chord reading. It sounds better... :)

Beatriz Baker Méio
United States
Local time: 10:34
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Holly Holmes: As a musician, I agree that sight reading is far more common. Here, acompanhamento likely distinguishes a passage rehearsed ahead of time from harmonic sight reading. Chord reading (cifras means chord symbols, not notation) is too specific for excerpt.
4 days

agree  António Ribeiro
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sight reading


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight-reading

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Note added at 5 days (2015-02-03 10:01:17 GMT)
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But what is harmonic reading in this context actually? The sentence appears to referring to keyboard skill.... I am a classically trained musician, and other than the book "Harmonic Reading as an approach to Chord Singing" I have never come across it (though - of course- just because I haven't doesn't mean it doesn't exist!!!) I'm curious ... :)

Juliet Attwater
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:34
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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