Category:Set pieces

Description: A set piece is a "through-composed setting of a metrical text" (Temperley 1983). "Usually less elaborate than an anthem, the set piece [is] a through-composed setting of a poetic text of more than one stanza" (Crawford 1968). Set pieces usually have metrical text, but anthems usually have text of prose or free verse.

References

• Crawford, Richard A. 1968. Andrew Law, American Psalmodist. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 424 pp.
• Temperley, Nicholas. 1983. The Music of the English Parish Church. Cambridge University Press. 492 pp.