# Musical setting

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A '''musical setting''' is a [musical composition](/source/musical_composition) that is written on the basis of a [literary work](/source/literary_work). The literary work is said to be ''set'', or adapted, ''to music''. Musical settings include [choral music](/source/choral_music) and other [vocal music](/source/vocal_music).<ref>[http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/setting Definition] Cambridge dictionary</ref> A musical setting is made to particular words, such as poems.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120721021747/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/setting Definition] Oxford dictionary</ref> By contrast, a musical [arrangement](/source/arrangement) is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work, rather than a brand new piece of music. An arrangement often refers to a change in medium or style and can be instrumental, not necessarily vocal music.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/36011/arrangement Arrangement], Encyclopædia Britannica online</ref>

Texts commonly used in choral settings include the [mass](/source/Mass_(music)) and the [requiem](/source/Music_for_the_Requiem_Mass) in [Western Christianity](/source/Catholicism), and the [Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom](/source/Divine_Liturgy_of_St._John_Chrysostom) and the [All-night vigil](/source/All-night_vigil) in [Eastern Christianity](/source/Eastern_Christianity). Examples include [Mozart](/source/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart)'s [Great Mass](/source/Great_Mass), and [Leontovych](/source/Mykola_Leontovych)'s [Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom](/source/Liturgy_of_St._John_Chrysostom_(Leontovych)).

A poem that has been set to music is known as an [art song](/source/art_song)<ref>{{citation | last = Randel | first = Don Michael | year = 2003 | title = The Harvard Dictionary of Music | publisher = Harvard University Press | page = 61 | isbn = 0-674-01163-5 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=02rFSecPhEsC&pg=PA61 | accessdate = 2012-10-22}}</ref> or [Lied](/source/Lied) (German variant). Composers known for their art songs include [Franz Schubert](/source/Franz_Schubert) and [Robert Schumann](/source/Robert_Schumann).

==Some notable settings==
*[George Frideric Handel](/source/George_Frideric_Handel)'s setting of ''[Zadok the Priest](/source/Zadok_the_Priest)'' (1721)
*[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart](/source/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart)'s setting of [''Ave verum corpus''](/source/Ave_verum_corpus_(Mozart)) (1791)
*[Franz Schubert](/source/Franz_Schubert)'s setting of [Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart](/source/Christian_Friedrich_Daniel_Schubart)'s poem, ''[Die Forelle](/source/Die_Forelle)'', "The Trout" (1817)
*[Giuseppe Verdi](/source/Giuseppe_Verdi)'s setting of the [Requiem Mass](/source/Requiem_(Verdi)) (1874)
*[Hubert Parry](/source/Hubert_Parry)'s setting of [William Blake](/source/William_Blake)'s poem ''[And did those feet in ancient time](/source/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time)'', also known as "Jerusalem" (1916)

==See also==
*[List of songs based on poems](/source/List_of_songs_based_on_poems)
*[Church music](/source/Church_music)
*[Contrafactum](/source/Contrafactum)

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