Pre-rock and roll, mid-1950s, the instrumentals ruled the charts. I could rattle off a list that only those of you who go back further than me would remember. Then from 1958 through 1982, each ...

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Mark Evan Bonds, Idealism and the Aesthetics of Instrumental Music at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 50, No. 2/3 (Summer - Autumn, 1997), pp.

Today’s pop music is so dependent on the human voice—whether singing or rapping—that it’s hard to imagine a time when instrumentals could be mainstream hits. In fact, no instrumental has ...

Another finding was that students who listened to music cognitively–that is, for the enjoyment of analyzing or appreciating the composition or technique–also preferred instrumental music.