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instrumental music

music without spoken or sung language
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Summary

instrumental music is a musical form[1]. It draws 2,420 Wikipedia views per month (musical form category, ranking #15 of 112).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: music genre[3]
  • Subclass of: music[4]
  • Commons category: Instrumental music[5]
  • Opposite of: vocal music[6]
  • Has cause: musical instrument[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Instrumental music[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Riemann's Music Dictionary[11]
  • Used by: instrumental band[12]
  • Has effect: instrumental composition[13]
  • Different from: Instrumental[14], instrumental version[15]

Why It Matters

instrumental music has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2611
    Sitelink count → 42
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2611, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327920|instrumental music (#7327920)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → —
    Harper's tag → instrumental-music
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: instrumental-music, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289936454|instrumental music (#289936454)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → u0002283-instrumentalni-hudba, u0002404-instrumentalni-hudba
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Subject named as: instrumentální hudba, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259620|batch #259620]]"
  4. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → u0002283-instrumentalni-hudba, u0002404-instrumentalni-hudba
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: u0002283-instrumentalni-hudba, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Has list → —
    Has cause → musical instrument
    Instance of → —
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 1514, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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