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Summary:

"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"--Page iv of cover.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Analysis video game music. The video game as source
• Methods of analysis
• Part 2: Critical perspectives. Texturing and the aesthetics of immersion
• Music and virtual game worlds
• Communication for play
• Hollywood film music and game music
• Musical play and video games
• Epilogue: fun, play and music
• Appendix: how to hear a video game
• an outline.

Author/Creator:

Summers, Tim, 1987- , author

Contributors:

Hannigan, James , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Understanding video game music [by Summers, T.]

Subjects:

Video game music — History and criticism

Video game music

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, ludography and index (pages 237-248).

Physical Description:

xv, 248 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ML3540.7.S86 2018

ISBNs:

9781108413428 (paperback)
1108413420 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

1057781905