Orchestral vs Instrumental - What's the difference?
orchestral | instrumental |
Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), I,ii
(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
* (rfdate) (John Dryden)
* Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
(grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by'' or ''with with the objective.
(uncountable, grammar) The instrumental case.
(countable, music) A composition without lyrics.
* 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
As adjectives the difference between orchestral and instrumental
is that orchestral is relating to an orchestra or to music played by an orchestra while instrumental is acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.As a noun instrumental is
the instrumental case.instrumental
English
(wikipedia instrumental)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was instrumental in conducting the business.
- The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth —
- instrumental music
- He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.
- the instrumental case
Coordinate terms
* (serving as a means) final * (music) vocal, a capellaAntonyms
* noninstrumentalDerived terms
* instrumental error * instrumentation * instrumentality * instrumentiveNoun
- I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent