Editing Kubla Khan (section)

== Musical settings ==
Excerpts from the poem have been put to music by [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]], [[Granville Bantock]], [[Humphrey Searle]], and Paul Turok; and [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]] composed an orchestral tone poem in 1912 (revised 1916).

Canadian rock band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] refers to the poem directly in the 1977 song "[[Xanadu (Rush song)|Xanadu]]", in which the narrator finds the site, obtains immortality after having "drunk the milk of Paradise" but goes mad after a thousand years, finding time stopped outside and himself unable to leave.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rush.com/songs/xanadu | title=Xanadu Lyrics }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Rush Songs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-rush-songs-20150304/xanadu-20150304 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=4 March 2015 |access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>

British band [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] alludes to the poem in the song "[[Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song)|Welcome to the Pleasuredome]]" from its [[Welcome_to_the_ Pleasuredome|eponymous 1984 debut album]]. However, they altered the quoted wording to "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a pleasuredome erect".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ingham |first1=Michael |date=2022 |title=The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |page=76}}</ref>

German band [[Blind Guardian]] makes several references to the poem in the lyrics of their song "Sacred Mind" on their 2015 concept album "[[Beyond the Red Mirror]]", and the associated page in the album book includes the following quote: "Then all the charm is broken - all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread". Within the story, Xanadu or the pleasure-dome is a temptation intended to mislead the hero on his journey, and the last obstacle he must overcome before reaching the Red Mirror.