The phrase "as a setting of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the context or environment in which a particular event, story, or piece of art takes place.
Example: "The novel is set in a small coastal town, as a setting of mystery and intrigue."
Alternatives: "in the context of" or "as a backdrop for".
Whereas in earlier centuries, the city had been regarded almost uniformly as a setting of civilization, culture, and freedom of mind, now one found more and more writers aware of the other side of cities: the atomization of human relationships, broken families, the sense of the mass, of anonymity, alienation, and disrupted values.
Although the song "Hava nagila" ("Come, Let's Rejoice") traditionally has been attributed to Idelsohn as a setting of his own text to a tune that he adapted from a Hasidic (a pietistic Jewish movement) melody, more-recent scholarship has suggested that the words to the song actually were composed by Idelsohn's student, Moshe Nathanson.
India reappears as the promise of redemption to rich Americans and also as a setting of physical squalor: of "interstate buses, piled on top with baggage and bundles and maybe a crate of chickens, some of them dying on the way" and "crowded with farmers, clerks, pregnant women carrying infants, and children vomiting out of the barred open windows through which dust and pollution flowed in".
The director did not strive to be historically accurate with the various time periods, perceiving the entire film as a setting of a fairy tale.
The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. Adolphe-Basile Routhier
The solution of a control problem can then be represented as a setting of these parameters— Figure 1A shows a schematic of a simple two-parameter system.
