The phrase "compose a set of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when referring to creating or putting together a collection or group of something. Example: The students were asked to compose a set of five unique poems for their creative writing assignment.
Inspired by Scarlatti, Chopin, Schumann and Debussy, Ligeti said his "own inadequate piano technique" was another impetus to compose a set of virtuosic études.
In mid-decade as well came a commission from Paris to compose a set of symphonies, and Haydn's resulting "Paris" symphonies are a landmark of the genre.
This visual accusation of sodomy provoked Caravaggio and his friends, including Gentileschi, to compose a set of satiric verses mocking Baglione as Giovanni Coglione ("Johnny Bollocks") in no uncertain terms.
Patience wrote two other books: one was a commission, in 1964, by the Blue Funnel Shipping Line to compose a set of recipes for the Chinese cooks of their newly launched passenger-cargo liner, the Centaur, plying from western Australia to Singapore.
In the first experiment, five color photos were used to compose a set of test images overlaid with a paragraph of Chinese texts as the stimuli.
Planning cells or citizen panels (juries) are groups of randomly selected citizens who are asked to compose a set of policy recommendations on a specific issue (Dienel 1989).
Farnaby also composed a set of fresh canzonets (1598) and a number of psalm settings.
Liszt began composing a set of etudes in 1824, at 13, and they were published two years later.
I am in the middle of composing a set of piano pieces, without any discernible link save brevity.
As an ex-chorister, I enjoy writing choral music; in fact, I recently composed a set of responses for Choral Evensong at King's College, Cambridge.
The great French poet François Villon was so captivated by thieves' cant that, within decades of the Coquillars' trial, he composed a set of ballads in the bandits' tongue.
