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Posted by Curious... on January 06, 2004 at 19:54:34:

start calling any piece of music a "song" I see and hear that everywhere these days. I'm not averse to it. I know language evolves. But I remember the term "song" being reserved for a piece of music with a melody and words meant to be sung by the human voice. We used to call instrumental music "a piece". Probably from the German "ein stueck" (with an umlaut, of course)

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OK?
jlb


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