Routledge Music and Screen Media Ser.: Music in Video Games : Studying Play by William Gibbons (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-10041563444X

ISBN-139780415634441

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038296314

Product Key Features

Number of Pages246 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMusic in Video Games : Studying Play

Publication Year2014

SubjectHistory & Criticism, Instruction & Study / Appreciation, General, Video & Electronic

TypeTextbook

AuthorWilliam Gibbons

Subject AreaMusic, Games & Activities

SeriesRoutledge Music and Screen Media Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight24.9 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-030028

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.5/4

Table Of ContentPreface: All Your Bass Are Belong to Us 1. Mario's Dynamic Leaps: Musical Innovations and the Specter of Early Cinema in Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. Neil Lerner 2. The Temporary Avatar Zone: Pico-Pico Parties in Tokyo Chris Tonelli 3. Nintendo's Art of Musical Play Roger Moseley and Aya Saiki 4. Transcribing Musical Worlds, or, Is L.A. Noire a Music Game? Steven Beverburg Reale 5. Meaningful Modular Combinations: Simultaneous Harp and Environmental Music in Two Legend of Zelda Games Elizabeth Medina-Gray 6. Wandering Tonalities: Silence, Sound, and Morality in Shadow of the Colossus William Gibbons 7. Fear of the Unknown: Music and Sound Design in Psychological Horror Games Rebecca Roberts 8. Lawn of the Dead: The Indifference of Musical Destiny in Plants vs. Zombies K.J. Donnelly 9. Music, History, and Progress in Sid Meier's Civilization IV Karen Cook 10. 'The Place I'll Return to Someday': Musical Nostalgia in Final Fantasy IX Jessica Kizzire 11. From Parsifal to the PlayStation: Wagner and Video Game Music Tim Summers

SynopsisFrom 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.

LC Classification NumberML3540.7.M88 2014