- Daniel Ho – Slack Key Guitar – Features numerous albums, mp3 samples, ordering information, and related links.
- Francis Chicheportiche – Paris-born composer and songwriter’s premier album «OZ» features a blend of ethnic instruments and ambient sounds.
- Guitarpro – Recordings of acoustic/electric guitar styles and sounds including pop, rock, classical, light jazz, blues, mor, neuvo-flamenco, and country.
- Hiko Music – New Age / classical piano from international recording artist. Biography, recordings, booking information.
- Jesse Garza – Acoustic Dream – San Antonio, TX local musician. A blend of soft easy listening jazz and Spanish/Latin music.
- Mackinac Summer CD – Track titles are Mackinac Island locations. CDs and piano folio available.
- Nova Era – Classical Music With A Groove – Recordings of ensemble which revamps classical music with modern rhythms and sounds.
- Oliver, Raymond G. – Composer and recording artist from Queensland, Australia offers free MP3 downloads and links to sales of music for relaxation.
- Tea Rose Duo Home Page – Popular and classical favorites played on violin and piano by Australian husband and wife duo.
An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. These instruments include anything in the range of strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Specifically, this term is used when referring to popular music; some musical genres make little use of the human voice, such as jazz, electronic music, classical, and large amounts of Western classical music (although in electronic music, the voice can be sampled just like anything else). In commercial music, some tracks or songs on a compact disc include instrumental tracks. These tracks are exact copies of the corresponding song, but do not have vocals.
Acappella singing may be considered the opposite of instrumental music: all sounds are produced by the human body without the use of additional instruments. Several genres of performances may be considered a cappella, like opera. Sometimes, though, even operas are not completely a cappella. Singing Acappella is singing without any background music or instuments. It is singing completly solo. For example, in most auditions you are required to sing without background music, or sing acappella.
