Musical Innovation From Three Different Eras

“Innovations in Music” is a compilation of biographical and analytical essays in Musicology, written from 2010 to 2012. The essays in question examine the compositional aspects and influences of several markedly different composers: the Hungarian Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the 1920s French nationalist music group known as “Les Six,” and Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996). Though other musicologists have written about these historical figures in the past, “Innovations in Music” focus...