Talk:Song

"Songs"
en.wp: "In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A choral or vocal song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose."

Thus: A song includes voice/singing/lyrics and a music track/musical composition/musical work/instrumental work is not a song in general.

(Some not so intelligent people maybe call all music works "songs", but even so they are just not so intelligent and the meaning of the word "song" is unchanged, like "table" would still be a "table", even if some people call tables "chair".)

Are all musical compositions which Link learns during his journeys songs? Some are, at lest by its name (e.g. Epona's Song), though practically, when Links uses his Ocarina alone, he can only play the melody of the song and not sing the lyrics alongside playing. This results in Link playing the melody of e.g. Epona's song, but not performing Epona's Song. E.g. "Command Melody" is, by its name, not a song. Maybe 'cause of game context it is a song; is it?

Furthermore: Maybe the kind of musical compositions does change in different translations. Eg. "Frog's Song of Soul" became "Krötenrap" ("toad rap") in the (Moyseian) German text (=/= translation, as Moyse and such are often more like text writers than translatiors). A rap might be a musical work and even a song, but not every song is a rap, so the kind of music did change there. (Maybe one could argue, that a rap is not music at all and thus not a song, but instead maybe more like just fast speaking, but well.)

-Bernd 14:02, 20 November 2012 (UTC)