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set to music

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set to music - write (music) for (a text)

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

compose, write - write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"

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An opera is a play set to music, but this opera was never set to music, and never sung or acted.

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