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.
| ISBN: | 9781107116870 |
| Publication date: | 9th August 2016 |
| Author: | Tim Summers |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 262 pages |
| Genres: |
Music |
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.
Understanding Video Game Music features in the following genres: Music, Electronic music, Music recording and reproduction, Digital music and audio: consumer / user guides, Computer games / online games: strategy guides
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Understanding Video Game Music was written by Tim Summers and published by Cambridge University Press
Understanding Video Game Music has 262 pages
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