Understanding video game music

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Music is a central component of video games. This book provides methods and concepts for understanding how game music works.

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Full title :Understanding video game music / Tim Summers ; foreword by James Hannigan.

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Music is a central component of video games. This book provides methods and concepts for understanding how game music works.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108114578, 9781108111171, 1108114571, 9781108113892, 1108113893, 1316337855, 9781316337851, 9781108111850, 1108111858, 1108111173
oclc:ocn958454912
LC Classification:ML3540.7
Dewey Decimal:781.5/4

Introduction: Beyond the Candelabrum Goals and Agendas ; Part I Analysing Video Game Music ; 1 The Video Game as a Source ; Music in Games ; Before the Gameplay ; Gameplay Music ; The Challenges of the Text ; 2 Methods of Analysis ; In-Game Sources ; Analytical Play

Programming and Music Data Musical Material ; Satellite Sources ; Production Documents, Reports and Interviews ; Recordings, Liner Notes, Scores, Associated Music ; Reviews and Player Comments ; Representing Game Music ; Part II Critical Perspectives

3 Texturing and the Aesthetics of Immersion Immersion and Texturing ; Epic Texturing ; Bodies, Nations and Musical Links ; Your Name Is Bond, James Bond ; Music and Virtual Perception: Variations and Voodoo ; Kant and the Metaphysical Loom ; Conceptual Toolkit

4 Music and Virtual Game Worlds Realism, Realities and the Racing Game ; Actual World Cultures, Virtual Worlds ; Virtual Histories ; Modes of Interacting with Virtual Worlds ; Asserting Fairness: Disinterested Music and Game Architectures ; 5 Communication for Play

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Computerspiel Criticism, interpretation, etc Jeux vidéo, Musique de -- Histoire et c… MUSIC -- Instruction & Study Musik Video game music Video game music -- History and critici… Videospiel