instrumental music

1. 1.

   music intended to be performed by a musical instrument or group of instruments

   Broadermusic
2. 2.

   music produced by playing a musical instrument

   Broadermusic

Questions about instrumental music

What does instrumental music mean?

instrumental music means "music intended to be performed by a musical instrument or group of instruments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is instrumental music a common word?

instrumental music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.