During the Baroque period, vocal and instrumental music were both equally important to the composers writing them as well as to the people listening to them. But things have changed over the years and people prefer listening now to mainly vocal music rather than just plain old instrumental music. The reason why is pretty simple, lyrics. Young people love listening to music with lyrics attached to them. They'll listen to songs with lyrics nonstop over and over again. The lyrics in a song actually tell some sort of story about some aspect of our lives. Lyrics make it clear what the music is really about. The main focus is on the lyrics; people listen to them so they can sing along. With instrumental music you don't really have lyrics to sing
