set something to music
put something to music

Copland said that for a long time he had harbored a notion to set music to Hemingway's writing.

These have set music, but not steps.

Can you imagine that 50 years later I'm setting music to that scene?

She allowed them to set music to some of his unreleased and unpublished lyrics.

After being dropped from his label deal, Day set music aside.

Wagner and those like him, such as Berlioz, had set music back three centuries.

In purely musical terms, there is nothing to set sacred music apart from the secular.

Fru Westin told me she had a visit from a man who wants her to set music to his dramatic verse.

Discs 1 and 2 of this 8 disc set present music from the film.

Still, visitors expect the fillip of transgression that sets American music afire.