instrumental music

Noun

Meaning

music produced by playing a musical instrument

music intended to be performed by a musical instrument or group of instruments

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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

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

Instrumental music can spread the international language. Herb Alpert

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

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. Carlos Santana

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. David Sanborn

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