Wiktionary
vb. (context music English) To adapt a literary work by adding music (and often song)
WordNet
v. write (music) for (a text)
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Set to Music is a musical revue with sketches, music and lyrics by Noël Coward.
Produced by John C. Wilson, the Broadway production opened on January 15, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre, where it ran for 129 performances. Directed by Coward, the revue starred Beatrice Lillie.
This show originated in 1932 under the title of Words and Music, with a London production at the Adelphi Theatre. It consisted of a series of sketches, some with songs. Seven years later, it was revised for Broadway as Set to Music. The song " Mad Dogs and Englishmen", one of Coward's best-known songs, was dropped, and four new songs were added. The sketches included "A Fragonard Impression", and "Midnight Matinée".
Usage examples of "set to music".
He persuaded his organist, a man named Franz Gruber, to set to music a poem he had written two years earlier at a pilgrim church.
During this time I received a letter from the poet whose poems I had set to music.
Sickert's greatest gift was not poetry, but this did not deter him from jotting a rhyme or two in letters or singing silly, original lyrics he set to music-hall tunes.