Definition

1. Verb:
   • To set to music: The primary meaning of "phổ nhạc" is the act of composing a musical melody and arrangement for a pre-existing text, most commonly a poem or song lyrics.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Nhạc sĩ ấy đã phổ nhạc bài thơ nổi tiếng. (That composer set the famous poem to music.)
  • Ca khúc này được phổ nhạc từ một bài thơ tình. (This song was set to music from a love poem.)
  • Anh ấy thích phổ nhạc cho các tác phẩm văn học. (He enjoys setting literary works to music.)

Advanced Usage

• The term specifically describes the process of creating music a text. The focus is on the text as the starting point.
• It is often used in the passive voice ("được phổ nhạc") to describe a text that has been musically adapted.

Variants and Related Words

• Soạn nhạc (v): to compose music (a more general term for creating music, not necessarily for a pre-existing text).
• Phổ thơ (v): to set a poem to music (a more specific variant of "phổ nhạc").

Synonyms

• To set to music: The direct equivalent.
• To adapt into a song: A descriptive synonym.

Related Idioms

• While not a fixed idiom, a common phrase is "thơ phổ nhạc", meaning "poems set to music," referring to the genre or category of such works.