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Originally Posted by rostasi
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Kind of proves my point though really: what that says is that songs usually have words, but these ones don't, and anyway, excellent as they are, they're pieces of music, just titled
Songs Without Words. I actually have that album. Beautiful stuff. But not songs in the conventional sense.
There's also birdsong of course, but that's an entirely different matter.
If someone played you "Classical gas", would you consider that a song? Perhaps it's just a personal thing I've grown up with, but the various definitions below seem to bear this out.
song Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...y/english/song
Song | Define Song at Dictionary.com
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song
An actual song without words is an instrumental, or a piece of music.