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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014
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| Series: | Routledge music and screen media series
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| Summary: | 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, |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1134692048 1306539900 1315882698 9781134692040 9781306539906 9781315882697 |