Musical setting

Texts commonly used in choral settings include the mass and the requiem in Western Christianity, and the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and the All-night vigil in Eastern Christianity. Examples include Mozart's Great Mass, and Leontovych's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

A poem that has been set to music is known as an art song or Lied (German variant). Composers known for their art songs include Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.

Some notable settings

• George Frideric Handel's setting of Zadok the Priest (1721)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's setting of Ave verum corpus (1791)
• Franz Schubert's setting of Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart's poem, Die Forelle, "The Trout" (1817)
• Giuseppe Verdi's setting of the Requiem Mass (1874)
• Hubert Parry's setting of William Blake's poem And did those feet in ancient time, also known as "Jerusalem" (1916)