Is the recording an "instrumental" if it never had words?

[jesus2099]

@reosarevok

the word song may refer to instrumentals

@IvanDobsky, more about this strangeness of song not sung:

Please your input on how to set the type for an original instrumental work of modern music

Hi folks As an example only: the instrumental work Dreams When I read Wikipedia, the proper name for instrumental original pieces of music is instrumental However, when wanting to set the type of this instrumental, a whole list of types pops up, but most of them meant for classical music, like: opera, overture etc. For modern pieces of music one can only choose from Song or Soundtrack. A Song in my opinion has lyrics, otherwise it cannot be sung. Wikipedia shares my opinion he…