Composed in 1887-1888, Debussy"s cantata, or Poeme Lyrique, was based upon the ballad "The Blessed Damozel" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a French translation by Gabriel Sarrazin. Though premiered and published in vocal in 1893, the orchestral score didn"t appear until 1902 due to the composer"s revisions to the orchestration. The 1902 Durand scoree is reprinted here in an easy-to-read format at a very reasonable price.