2011/8/9 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <reosare...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, SwissChris <swissch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > + 1 for spoken word > > For instrumental I see that we are missing something, but I don't think > that > > the generic term is a good term to use. It is opposed to vocal, which > > subdivides in many more specific types (aria, song, opera, mass…) and > like > > for vocal there are many sub-types of instrumental (concerto, symphony, > > sonata…). I don't know what the people familiar with jazz, electronica, > or > > whatever genres I'm not familiar with would call a "song" without words. > > Personally, I'd call that a… "song", too. "song (instrumental)" could > work, I imagine, if we want to indicate that it has no lyrics. >
Well songs, by definition, have singing. -- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Song -- "Works" or "pieces" refer to a broader category, but that includes vocal and instrumental works. Also, some of these "work types" aren't exclusively vocal or instrumental, so having those as either distinct categories or as work types seems like it might cause problems. BTW, "spoken word" might be problematic too: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sprechgesang --Torc.
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