Music in video games: studying play
Music in video games: studying play
From 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
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Lerner, Neil
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Donnelly, Kevin
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Gibbons, William
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3 February 2014
Lerner, Neil
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Donnelly, Kevin
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Gibbons, William
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Lerner, Neil, Donnelly, Kevin and Gibbons, William
(eds.)
(2014)
Music in video games: studying play
,
New York, USA.
Routledge, 246pp.
Abstract
From 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
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 June 2013
Published date: 3 February 2014
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Local EPrints ID: 382050
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/382050
ISBN: 978-0-415-63443-4
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Neil Lerner
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William Gibbons
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