Sentence examples for a setting of a from inspiring English sources

A setting of a devotional poem by Édouard Blau, "Rédemption" is a peculiar construction.

She also sang four songs by Zemlinsky, including "Frühlingslied," a setting of a Heine poem.

A group of four Schumann songs included the often heard "Widmung" ("Dedication"), a setting of a Rückert poem.

A setting of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it has been performed several hundred times internationally and also has been staged and choreographed.

All these ideas are to be found in his dramatic cantata, The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda (1624), a setting of a section of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata.

It's a setting of a work by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, about a man living in a dull town, who escapes his humdrum life through sexual fantasy.

It was followed by what he called a musical "anti-homage"- Brahms, a setting of a poem by Alfred Brendel for baritone and orchestra.

"At Suma Beach" is less a setting of a Noh play than a delicate reduction of one, condensed like a clear stock into intense -- but not dense -- music.

And Charles Naginski's "Look Down, Fair Moon" (1940), a setting of a harrowing verse from Whitman's war poetry, ended the set on a dark, sobering note.

Samuel Barber's melancholically beautiful "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," a setting of a James Agee text, here featuring the soprano Dana Beth Miller, follows.

Sir Richard's contribution, "A Good-Night," uses more elevated harmonic techniques for a similar purpose in a setting of a 17th-century poem by Francis Quarles.