SET TO MUSIC

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does set to music mean? 

• SET TO MUSIC (verb)
  The verb SET TO MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. write (music) for (a text)

  Familiarity information: SET TO MUSIC used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET TO MUSIC (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write (music) for (a text)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "set to music" is one way to...):

compose; write (write music)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he set to music his major works over a short period of time?

 Context examples 

It was as if it had never been written, or set to music, but sprung out of passion within her; which found imperfect utterance in the low sounds of her voice, and crouched again when all was still.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During the ceremony the boys had mysteriously disappeared, and when Mrs. March had tried to thank her children, and broken down, while Teddy wiped her eyes on his pinafore, the Professor suddenly began to sing. Then, from above him, voice after voice took up the words, and from tree to tree echoed the music of the unseen choir, as the boys sang with all their hearts the little song that Jo had written, Laurie set to music, and the Professor trained his lads to give with the best effect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)