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Mendelssohn Songs Without Words for the Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 58)

Felix Mendelssohn

(Piano Collection). Contents: The Adieu * Agitation * Boat-Song * The Brook * Confidence * Consolation (Still, Still With Thee) * Contemplation * Delirium * The Departure * Duet, Op. 38, No. 6 * Elegy * The Evening Star * Faith * The Fleecy Clouds * The Flight * Folk-Song * Funeral March * Homeless...

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It was discussed as an example of a piano piece that has a lyrical quality, conveying emotion like a song with words, despite having no lyrics.

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When I first heard about that, I was like, what song without words?

— Episode: The Science of Music with Josh Groban

Episode: The Science of Music with Josh Groban

It was discussed as an example of a piano piece that has a lyrical quality, conveying emotion like a song with words, despite having no lyrics.

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When I first heard about that, I was like, what song without words?

It's a literal definition of song without words and it's very lyrical so that means there's a melody with harmony underneath because a song is really a melody because the human voice we sing unless you're doing overtone singing you sing one note after another and that's melody.

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