musicalize

Verb

musicalise (third-person singular simple present musicalises, present participle musicalising, simple past and past participle musicalised)

1. (UK) To set (a text etc) to music.
   • Although she [Maurine Watkins] was adamant about it throughout her lifetime, after she was dead, her executors gave permission to musicalise her work.1997, Stephen Citron, The Musical from the Inside Out, Elephant Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 108
2. (UK) To compose music for a dramatic work.