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...