Sentence examples for musical setting from inspiring English sources

Passion music, musical setting of the suffering and Crucifixion of Christ, based either on biblical texts or poetic elaborations.

In a musical setting the third section of each stanza therefore takes the same music as the refrain, while the first two sections have different music.

Are the words clear in their musical setting?

But while the musical setting is grandiloquent, Cooke's tale is down-to-earth.

Great skill is required in the musical setting of the text in a choral work.

It's more beautiful on the page than in its musical setting.

His views on musical setting were conservative; his preferred composer was his friend, Johann Friedrich Reichardt.

The program will also feature Lear's own musical setting of the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Though scrupulously elegant, as always, Heaney's words gained nothing - quite the opposite - from their musical setting.

The piece is a musical setting of poems by Siv Cedering of Amagansett.

But Tchaikovsky, who provided the novel's most famous musical setting in his soaring 1879 opera "Eugene Onegin," was scarcely present.