Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Musicology, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: In the world of music, Claude Debussy became the foremost composer of the new musical impressionism. His aim was to express "the inexpressible," in a manner that would ultimately reinvent music drama as "drama in music." Through his only completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy created a new technique designed to "convey the etat d'ame of the characters and the maze of unconscious conflicts between them." Debussy chose to set the poetry of Materlinck's...

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Musicology, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: Franz Liszt was born in western Hungary on October 22nd 1811 and died at Bayreuth, Germany in July 1886. He was a pianist, a teacher and a composer. He developed several musical ways such as programmatic music, technique and thematic transformation. He traveled most of his life, and composed a number of works about the places that he traveled. He met his first lover, Countess Marie d'Agoult at the end of 1832, and they had three children, Blandine, Cosima and...