instrumental music
Songs without singing
Instrumental music is music performed without vocals—by instruments alone.
The term distinguishes pieces featuring only piano, orchestra, or other instruments from songs with singing: The album's instrumental tracks are its strongest.
In contexts where vocal music dominates, instrumental often marks the exception: an instrumental version of the hit single.
- guitarFretted stringed instrument
- violinBowed string instrument
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- celloDeep-voiced bowed instrument
- string quartetFour-piece chamber group
improvisation · trumpet · ambient · easy listening · classical · harmony · piano · acoustic guitar · wordless · Baroque · tone poem · jazz · smooth jazz · timbre · soundtrack · orchestral · chamber · marching band
- Early MusicGregorian chant, motet, troubadours, plainchant, madrigals
- Gugaktraditional songs, folk ballads, harvest songs, storytelling songs, fan dance
- audio artssinging, opera, jazz, blues, rap
- Bosnian musicfolk dances, love songs, mountain songs, epic songs, folk melody
- Southeast Asian Musicfolk melodies, gongs, metallophones, dalang, chap
- music termsmelody, tempo, rhythm, harmony, beat
instrumental musicvocal music
Music produced by singing
choral music · a cappella · song · singing · opera
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