Sentence examples for setting of words from inspiring English sources

He excelled in the development of dramatic scenes through melody and careful setting of words.

In Flanders – "I'm homesick for the hills" – is a setting of words by his friend William Harvey.

He also gave one of the two earliest accounts of double counterpoint and offered detailed advice on the setting of words to music.

Much the same may be said of the Mendelssohn example, which begins and ends with references to Mendelssohn's setting of words by a poet of the same Classical-Romantic age and temperament as Claudius, Johann Heinrich Voss.

In the subdued fourth movement the remarkable mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson brought her dusky, poignantly beautiful voice and communicative honesty to Mahler's setting of words by Nietzsche on death, the depth of pain and the eternity of joy.

Judd Greenstein, whose music carries echoes of both minimalism and the American leftist-populist tradition, offers "My City," a forty-minute setting of words by Walt Whitman, the bard of Brooklyn.

The first set of words murmurs with soft syllables.

What I did was extract 12 sets of words.

Basically, a dictionary lists a set of words with information about them.

"It's the first set of words a reader sees," he once said.

It's actually a fairly vital set of words that may have other sets of consequences," he said.