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_b.M88 2014
245 0 0 _aMusic in video games
_b: studying play
_c/ edited by K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2014.
264 4 _c2014
300 _axiii, 232 pages . : illustrations ; 23 cm.
490 0 _aRoutledge music and screen media series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _tMario's dynamic leaps : musical innovations and the specter of early cinema in Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros.— The temporary avatar zone : pico-pico parties in Tokyo— Nintendo's art of musical play— Transcribing musical worlds, or, is L.A. noire a music game?— Meaningful modular combinations : simultaneous harp and environmental music in two Legend of Zelda games— Wandering tonalities : silence, sound, and morality in Shadow of the colossus— Fear of the unknown : music and sound design in psychological horror games— Lawn of the dead : the indifference of musical destiny in Plants vs. zombies— Music, history, and progress in Sid Meier's Civilization IV— "The place I'll return to someday" : musical nostalgia in Final fantasy IX— From Parsifal to the Playstation : Wagner and video game music.
520 _aFrom its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies, to investigate the history, function, style, and conventions of video game music.
650 0 _aVideo game music
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aVideo game music
_xAnalysis, appreciation.
700 _aDonnelly, K. J.
_q(Kevin J.)
700 _aGibbons, William
_q(William James),
_d1981-
700 _aLerner, Neil William,
_d1966-
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