Ludomusicology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ludomusicology write by Michiel Kamp. This book was released on 2016. Ludomusicology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book suggests a variety of new approaches to the study of game music.
Understanding Video Game Music
Understanding Video Game Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Video Game Music write by Tim Summers. This book was released on 2016-09-08. Understanding Video Game Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples including Final Fantasy VII, Monkey Island 2, SSX Tricky and Silent Hill - these explorations not only illuminate aspects of game music, but also provide conceptual ideas valuable for future analysis. Music is not a redundant echo of other textual levels of the game, but central to the experience of interacting with video games. As the author likes to describe it, this book is about music for racing a rally car, music for evading zombies, music for dancing, music for solving puzzles, music for saving the Earth from aliens, music for managing a city, music for being a hero; in short, it is about music for playing.
Keys to Play
Keys to Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keys to Play write by Roger Moseley. This book was released on 2016-10-28. Keys to Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music write by Melanie Fritsch. This book was released on 2021-04-29. The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.
Unlimited Replays
Unlimited Replays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlimited Replays write by William Gibbons. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Unlimited Replays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from interactive iPad games. World-renowned classical orchestras frequently perform concerts of game music to sold-out audiences. But what do such combinations of art and entertainment reveal about the cultural value we place on these media? Can classical music ever be video game music, and can game music ever be classical? Delving into the shifting and often contradictory cultural definitions that emerge when classical music meets video games, Unlimited Replays offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.
