Talk:Instrumental

message: The article says:
"An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing,"
If a instrumental cant have lyrics, this means that if I dont use vocals on my song but put lyrics there using morse code, my song will not be instrumental????
I think we need to fix that on the article.201.78.130.34 (talk) 16:45, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instrumental music VS music without lyrics 

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Instrumentals vs songs, where I have raised some concerns about discrepancies in the way we deal with articles about instrumental recordings. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:30, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "without lyrics, singing, or any other sort of vocal input" ... I think the main thing is that there are no lyrics. There can be voices, but they are treated as just another instrument and are not dominant. Richard K. Carson (talk) 06:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instrumentals vs songs 

message: the best instrumental ever written is "The Call Of Ktulu" by Metallica
4.71.21.138 (talk) 15:19, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  instance of opinion 

message: I was wondering if anyone knows what's the proper term for - when an artist performs/sings a song LIVE, but the instrumental is recorded, not played live ( by band or group of musicians). Some musicians call it - "Phonogram", some "Instrumental" - which one is correct? Or maybe there's another term for it that I have no idea.
Thank you.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.43.131.243 (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the proper terminology? 

message: The recordings of Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band and Sugar shack by Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs cannot be considered instrumental hits. The first one consists of 73 words (not counting the do-wop-styled words), and Jimmy Gilmer sings at least 119 words on his recording.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.25.0.196 (talk) 10:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are ''Winchester Cathedral'' & ''Sugar Shack'' listed?  

message: Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 16:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: What about Peter Gun Theme (Bluesbrothers)
ain't that an instrumental?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.67.117.110 (talk) 22:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  so much missing... what about Peter Gun Theme  (Blues Brothers) 

message: I am removing Chatanooga Choo Choo, as it is not an instrumental, but follows the big-band standard or alternating instrumental-vocal-instrumental choruses.  78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 17:50, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chatanooga Choo Choo 

message: Is the instrumental musicBayou Maharajah by Harry connick Jr. have an Indian twist to the song.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.54.108 (talk) 03:35, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bayou Maharajah by Harry Connick Jr. 

message: The instrumental Axel F was Number-One in Ireland, partly also in Canada and the Netherlands. --93.196.203.38 (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axel F 

message: In Billboard magazine, Hugo Montenegro's version did not top the Hot 100, turned one notch away from the summit by Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" on 1 June 1968, though it topped the Adult Contemporary (then called Easy Listening) chart on 18 May - 1 June 1968 and the UK chart on 13 November 1968.  All of the other instrumentals listed as topping in the US referred to a pop chart, not some other chart.  So Montenegro's version, supposedly topping in the US on 8 June 1968, which never occurred on any Billboard chart on that date, should be stricken from the list.  Who cares about Tunecaster?  107.185.145.26 (talk) 22:55, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 

message: This article is predominantly about instrumental compositions in pop music, with are relatively rare. Other Wikipedias have articles (linked with this article) about instrumental music in general (from the Middle Ages until now). Bever (talk) 05:17, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instrumental music 

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message: The Borderline cases section is a hatrack: a pile of original research with questionable relevance to the supposed topic & without a single supporting reference. Like a perennial plant in autumn, it ought to be cut down to the ground so that it can start again properly.Weeb Dingle (talk) 19:08, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  there ARE no borderlines 

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