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Within the scholarly community, the vaguely-defined territory encompassed by the term "New Complexity" is infinitely fraught with misconceptions. No one wishes to lay claim to the neologism, and composers associated with the term seek distance from it. Nevertheless, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf has recently attempted to define the term and suggests that the music has its roots in the 1970s with works such as Brian Ferneyhough's La Terre est un Homme, with consequent elaboration in the 1980s. Though Mahnkopf does not specify the nature of this elaboration, Darmstadt's summer courses clearly provided an important gathering place for composers such as Richard Barrett, Chris Dench, James Dillon, Michael Finnissy and Roger Redgate, who were willing to invest time into investigating the ideas of complexity. The term New Complexity, within this paper, refers to a series of compositions fueled by Darmstadt's summer courses during the 1980s and early '90s that complexify the relationships between composer, score, performer, and listener. The battlefield surrounding this music has long been home to a variety of polemical invectives, including the arguments that the composers are searching for the

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Author

Duncan Stuart Paul.

Language

EN

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nonfiction

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Music, Arts