musicalise

English

Alternative forms

• musicalize

Etymology

musical +‎ -ise

Verb

musicalise (third-person singular simple present musicalises, present participle musicalising, simple past and past participle musicalised) (British spelling)

1. To set (a text etc) to music.
   • 1997, Stephen Citron, The Musical from the Inside Out, Elephant Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 108:

     Although she [Maurine Watkins] was adamant about it throughout her lifetime, after she was dead, her executors gave permission to musicalise her work.

2. To compose music for a dramatic work.

Translations

to set to music

• Catalan: musicar (ca)
• Portuguese: musicar (pt)
• Spanish: musicar (es)