Editing Catullus (section)

==Musical settings==
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The Hungarian-born British composer [[Matyas Seiber]] set poem 31 for unaccompanied mixed chorus Sirmio in 1957.{{citation needed|date = July 2023}} The American composer [[Ned Rorem]] set Catullus 101 to music for voice and piano; the song, "Catullus: On the Burial of His Brother", was originally published in 1969.{{citation needed|date = July 2023}}

[[Pulitzer Prize for Music|Pulitzer]] winning American composer [[Dominick Argento]] set verses of Catullus for mixed chorus and percussion in 1981. ''I Hate and I Love'' presents about 50 lines of text over eight movements using the composer's own translation into English.  The [[Dale Warland Singers]], who commissioned the work, recorded it, as did [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]] with his Festival Chorus.

''Catullus Dreams'' (2011) is a song cycle by David Glaser set to texts of Catullus, scored for soprano and eight instruments; it premiered at Symphony Space in New York by soprano Linda Larson and Sequitur Ensemble.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glaser’s Song Cycle To Receive World Premiere At Symphony Space |url=https://www.yu.edu/facultynews/2011/03/21/glasers-opera-to-receive-world-premiere-at-symphony-space |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Yeshiva University |language=en}}</ref> {{lang|la|Carmina Catulli}} is a song cycle arranged from 17 of Catullus's poems by American composer Michael Linton. The cycle was recorded in December 2013 and premiered at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in March 2014 by French baritone Edwin Crossley-Mercer and pianist Jason Paul Peterson.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://refinersfire.us/linton-carmina-catulli/ | publisher=RefinersFire | title=New Release: Linton: Carmina Catulli | access-date=8 October 2014 | date=19 August 2014 | last=McMurtry | first=Chris | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008192346/http://refinersfire.us/linton-carmina-catulli/ | archive-date=8 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/2/Recordings/LINTON__Carmina_Catulli.html|title=LINTON: Carmina Catulli|website=www.operanews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forumopera.com/cd/carmina-catulli-priape-lesbie-diane-et-caetera|title=Priape, Lesbie, Diane et caetera - Forum Opéra|website=www.forumopera.com}}</ref>

[[Thomas Campion]] also wrote a lute-song entitled "My Sweetest Lesbia" dating from 1601<ref>{{Cite web |title=My Sweetest Lesbia {{!}} For Better For Verse |url=https://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/prosody_poem/my-sweetest-lesbia/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |language=en}}</ref> using his own translation of the first six lines of Catullus 5 followed by two verses of his own;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rumens |first=Carol |date=2010-03-22 |title=Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/mar/22/poem-week-sweetest-lesbia-campion |access-date=2024-03-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> the translation by [[Richard Crashaw]] was set to music<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/37/Web-com.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/37/Web-com.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Come and let us live : Samuel Webbe Jr. (c. 1770–1843) : Music score|website=Cpdl.org|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> in a four-part [[Glee (music)|glee]] by [[Samuel Webbe Jr.]]{{citation needed|date = July 2023}} It was also set to music,{{when|date = July 2023}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/5/52/Smi-let.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/5/52/Smi-let.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Let us, my Lesbia, live and love : John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) : Music score|website=Cpdl.org|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> in a three-part [[Glee (music)|glee]] by [[John Stafford Smith]].{{citation needed|date = July 2023}}

[[Catullus 5]], the love poem {{lang|la|Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus}}, in the translation by [[Ben Jonson]], was set to music in 1606, ([[lute]] accompanied song) by [[Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gerbode.net/ft2/composers//Ferrabosco/songs/06_come_my_celia/pdf/06_come_my_celia.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005184436/http://gerbode.net/ft2/composers//Ferrabosco/songs/06_come_my_celia/pdf/06_come_my_celia.pdf |archive-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>Cunningham, J. (ed.) (2015) [https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/7470292/PDB5514-00.pdf ''The Cambridge edition of the Works of Ben Jonson: Music Edition''], P.4.1.</ref>  Dutch composer [[Bertha Tideman-Wijers]] used Catullus's text for her composition ''Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns."''{{when|date = July 2023}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=ccm :: Tideman Wijers, Bertha Tideman Wijers|url=http://composers-classical-music.com/t/TidemanWijersBertha.htm|access-date=12 July 2021|website=composers-classical-music.com}}</ref> The Icelandic composer [[Jóhann Jóhannsson]] set [[Catullus 85]] to music; entitled {{lang|la|Odi Et Amo}}, the song is found on Jóhannsson's album ''[[Englabörn]]'', and is sung through a [[vocoder]], and the music is played by a [[string quartet]] and [[piano]].{{when|date = July 2023}}{{citation needed|date = July 2023}} ''[[Catulli Carmina]]'' is a [[cantata]] by [[Carl Orff]] dating from 1943 that sets texts from Catullus to music.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ball |first=Timothy |date=2003-07-03 |title=Orff's Trionfi - Jochum (DG) |url=https://www.classicalsource.com/cd/orffs-trionfi-jochum-dg/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Classical Source |language=en-GB}}</ref> Finnish jazz singer Reine Rimón has recorded poems of Catullus set to standard jazz tunes.{{when|date = July 2023}}{{citation needed|date = July 2023}}