A musical setting is a musical composition that is written on the basis of a literary work. The literary work is said to be set, or adapted, to music....

tightening of a knot Musical setting, the composition of music for an existing text, usually in choral music Setting (band), American musical ensemble from Durham...

numerous times. The title "Ave Maria" has been given also to musical compositions that are not settings of the prayer. One of the most famous is the version by...

be performed during the celebration of an actual mass. The earliest musical settings of the mass are Gregorian chant. The different unchanging portions...

of 2,238 performances was more than twice as long as any previous musical, setting a record that stood for nearly forty years. Even a revival of The Beggar's...

have fun with the rhyme by adapting it to a number of bygone musical styles as The musical adventures of Jack & Jill in Words & Music: A Book of Burlesques...

Musical settings of sayings of Jesus on the cross are compositions which set seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the four...

All. A setting of the poem, in German translation, appears on the 2009 music album Buch der Balladen by Faun. A lyrical, mystical musical setting of this...

is now thought to be wholly American in origin. The two most common musical settings are by William J. Kirkpatrick (1895) and James Ramsey Murray (1887)...

wrote six settings: D. 460, D. 461, D. 730, D. 739 (Op. 45), D. 750, and D. 962. Vierne's treatment of it is his Opus 2. Duruflé's setting is contained...

A parody mass is a musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of a pre-existing piece of music, such as a...

Isaac Leib Peretz, and is still used as a Jewish protest song. Other musical settings of the poem include: Christian Gottfried Körner (1786) Carl Friedrich...

Netherlands, and Ireland. Rich Mullins and Beaker also composed a musical setting titled "Creed", released on Mullins' 1993 album A Liturgy, a Legacy...

genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions...

"Exclusive: It's Jacqueliene Fernandez vs Neil Nitin Mukesh in a musical setting". Hindustan Times. "GOAT web series: Jacqueline Fernandez will bring...

first sung prayer of the Mass ordinary and is usually part of any musical setting of the Mass, one exception being the early English school, whose liturgy...

Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (1938–2013) in 1973. This was the first known musical setting of the hymn to become widely popular, although the Icelandic composer...

were published under his pseudonym Lewis Allan. He wrote the poem and musical setting of "Strange Fruit" (1937), which was recorded by Billie Holiday. Meeropol...

Beethoven. There are relatively few famous musical settings of Schiller's poems. Notable exceptions are Beethoven's setting of "An die Freude" (Ode to Joy) in...

Lyric setting is the process in songwriting of placing textual content (lyrics) in the context of musical rhythm, in which the lyrical meter and musical rhythm...

poem McDaniel, Mary Eileen (May 1973). Dramatic Expression in Thirty Musical Settings of Goethe's "Der Erlkönig" (MMus thesis). North Texas State University...

The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was...

is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant church service. The typical four-part setting of a...

regularity. The first stanza's setting begins with a statement in bars 2–3, a motif whose notes Sams identifies as a musical cipher for Clara, the non-diatonic...

conjectural musical accompaniment might have sounded in the time of Catullus has been recreated by Mary Ann Tedstone Glover, but the earliest setting of the...

are sung at the end of each day of Boccaccio's Decameron (only one musical setting of these poems, by Lorenzo da Firenze, survives). Early ballate, such...

American pianist, organist, composer and educator, best known for his musical setting of "The Lord's Prayer". Malotte was the son of Charles and Katherine...

to describe the lucid relationship between the text and Josquin's musical setting. Each phrase corresponds to a line of text, cleverly exposed through...

 1585) was an English choral composer and theological writer whose musical setting of the early Anglican liturgy standardised the sung Anglican service...

inserted: William Byrd composed a setting for this hymn in the late 1500s. Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed six settings for "O salutaris Hostia": H.236...