Editing John Donne (section)

===Musical settings===
There were musical settings of Donne's lyrics even during his lifetime and in the century following his death. These included [[Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger]]'s ("So, so, leave off this last lamenting kisse" in his 1609 Ayres); [[John Coprario|John Cooper]]'s ("The Message"); [[Henry Lawes]]' ("Break of Day"); [[John Dowland]]'s ("Break of Day" and "To ask for all thy love");<ref>{{youTube|id=EyQYbCnlyaE|title= To ask for all thy love performed by John Dowland}}</ref> and settings of "[[A Hymn to God the Father]]" by [[John Hilton the younger]]<ref>{{youTube|id=cyFvyRZbsLI|title= Wilt Thou Forgive? performed by Connor Burrowes}}</ref> and [[Pelham Humfrey]] (published 1688).<ref>{{youTube|id=ElRN0CMGVzc |title= Hymn to God the Father, music composed by Pelham Humfrey}}</ref>

After the 17th century, there were no more until the start of the 20th century with [[Havergal Brian]] ("A nocturnal on St Lucy's Day", first performed in 1905), [[Eleanor Everest Freer]] ("Break of Day, published in 1905) and [[Walford Davies]] ("The Cross", 1909) among the earliest. In 1916–18, the composer [[Hubert Parry]] set Donne's "Holy Sonnet 7" ("At the round earth's imagined corners") to music in his choral work, ''[[Songs of Farewell]]''.<ref name="shrock">{{cite book |last1=Shrock |first1=Dennis |title=Choral Repertoire |date=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=9780195327786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SVnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA536}}</ref> [[Regina Hansen Willman]] set Donne's "First Holy Sonnet" for voice and string trio. In 1945, [[Benjamin Britten]] set nine of Donne's Holy Sonnets in his [[song cycle]] for voice and piano ''[[The Holy Sonnets of John Donne]]''. in 1968, [[Williametta Spencer]] used Donne's text for her choral work "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners." Among them is also the choral setting of "Negative Love" that opens ''[[Harmonium (Adams)|Harmonium]]'' (1981), as well as the aria setting of "Holy Sonnet XIV" at the end of the 1st act of ''[[Doctor Atomic]]'', both by John Adams.<ref>{{youTube|id=LytizCfS4IM |title=A choral setting of 'Negative Love'}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|id=AlUHKHLk_VU |title=An aria setting of 'Holy Sonnet XIV'}}</ref>

There have been settings in popular music as well. One is the version of the song "[[Go and Catch a Falling Star]]" on [[John Renbourn]]'s debut album ''[[John Renbourn (album)|John Renbourn]]'' (1966), in which the last line is altered to "False, ere I count one, two, three".<ref>{{youTube|id=yhmwesdFkAc |title=John Renbourn}}</ref> On their 1992 album ''Duality'', the English [[Neoclassical dark wave]] band [[In the Nursery]] used a recitation of the entirety of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" for the track "Mecciano"<ref>{{youTube|id=giJV9Rwd0lY |title=Mecciano}}</ref> and an augmented version of "A Fever" for the track "Corruption."<ref>{{youTube|id=FzR6hQAkPzs |title=In the Nursery – Corruption}}</ref>
Prose texts by Donne have also been set to music. In 1954, [[Priaulx Rainier]] set some in her ''[[Cycle for Declamation]]'' for solo voice.<ref>{{youTube|id=Naf1ldpVHQU|title=Priaulx Rainier – Cycle for Declamation}}</ref> In 2009, the American [[Jennifer Higdon]] composed the choral piece ''[[On the Death of the Righteous]]'', based on Donne's sermons.<ref name="Webster"/><ref>{{youTube|id=kd7gAjPkcUw |title=On the Death of the Righteous}}</ref> More recent is the Russian minimalist [[Anton Batagov]]'s " I Fear No More, selected songs and meditations of John Donne" (2015).<ref name="Batagov"/><ref>{{youTube|id=aDaHIOGewus|title= Fear no more:Selected songs and meditations of John Donne performed by Anton Bagatov}}</ref>