DIVERSITY IN PIANO SIGHT-READING: PREPARATORY INVESTIGATION

Pianists of intermediate and advanced levels have previously been tested sight-reading different styles of piano pieces in Japan and Romania The outcome vaguely indicated that the general fluency possibly not being the foremost importance as it is in the UK. A fuller analysis therefore has been undertaken, using the data from the test and the follow up questionnaires. From this small scale research, the Japanese subjects reasonably valued general fluency while not necessarily have achieved, and Romanian subjects probably did not value it very much. This confirmed possibly different practices of sight-reading between countries.