Sentence examples for setting words from inspiring English sources

This is a poignant and intimate alternative, setting words from AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

He creates Twitter- and Tumblr-friendly image macros by setting words in Helvetica on top of puppy or nebula photos.

Mr. Musto, Mr. Hagen and Mr. Heggie are serious and gifted musicians clearly enthralled with the singing voice and engaged by the practice of setting words to music.

In the 1980s he'd devised a way of setting words by having them sung on a slow glissando that preserved the microtonal inflections of speaking.

By setting words to music, Tchaikovsky could tell operatic audiences more about Pushkin's letter and card game than Cranko and Mr. Brandstrup did in their nonverbal adaptations.

Conceived as a single massive movement, the Symphony is in fact a series of seven songs for baritone and soprano soloists, setting words from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore.

The verbal contract required set words or patterns of words to be spoken.

Luening chose texts with discerning literary taste and set words with admirable clarity.

Stravinsky continued to set words this way for the rest of his life.

And he certainly understands how to write for the voice and set words to music.

Mr. Cohen was a man of letters, both poet and novelist, long before he set words to music.