What is another word for instrumental music?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪnstɹəmˈɛntə͡l mjˈuːzɪk] (IPA)

Instrumental music is a form of musical expression that utilizes only instruments, without any vocals or lyrics. There are many synonyms for instrumental music, depending on the context and type of music being played. Some synonyms for this genre include orchestral music, classical music, contemporary instrumental music, ambient music, electronic music, and synthesizer music. These genres can encompass a wide range of different styles and sounds, from classical orchestral pieces to electronic music designed to create a specific mood or atmosphere. Whatever the style or type of instrumental music, it has the ability to evoke emotions and inspire listeners without the need for words.

What are the hypernyms for Instrumental music?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Instrumental music?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for instrumental music (as nouns)

Famous quotes with Instrumental music

  • After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.
    Stanley Clarke
  • Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
    Ali Akbar Khan
  • The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
    Franz Liszt
  • "In 'pure' instrumental music, the strategies chosen by composers to create unity were responsive to the tenets of Romanticism...Even in the absence of an explicit program, motivic continuity created a kind of narrative coherence. Like the chief character in a novel, the 'fortunes' of the main motive--its development, variation, and encounters with other 'protagonists'--served as a source of constancy throughout the unfolding of the musical process."
    Leonard B. Meyer
  • The only vestige of these musical vagrants now remaining, is to be found in the blind fiddlers wandering about the country, and the ballad singers, who frequently accompany their ditties with instrumental music, especially the fiddle, vulgarly called a crowd, and the guitar. And here we may observe, that the name of fiddlers was applied to the minstrels as early at least as the fourteenth century: it occurs in the Vision of Pierce the Ploughman, where we read, "not to fare as a fydeler, or a frier, to seke feastes."
    Joseph Strutt

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