Music in video games

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MUSIC/FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
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 11 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.
Contributors
Karen M. Cook K.J. Donnelly William Gibbons Jessica Kizzire Neil Lerner
Elizabeth Medina-Gray Roger Moseley Steven Beverburg Reale Rebecca Roberts Aya Saiki Tim Summers Chris Tonelli
K.J. Donnelly is Reader in Film at the University of Southampton, where he convenes the Film... Tovább

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MUSIC/FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
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 11 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.
Contributors
Karen M. Cook K.J. Donnelly William Gibbons Jessica Kizzire Neil Lerner
Elizabeth Medina-Gray Roger Moseley Steven Beverburg Reale Rebecca Roberts Aya Saiki Tim Summers Chris Tonelli
K.J. Donnelly is Reader in Film at the University of Southampton, where he convenes the Film Studies masters program.
William Gibbons Is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University. His primary areas of research Interest are opera studies and music in video games.
Neil Lerner is Professor of Music at Davidson College, where he is co-coordinator of the concentration in film and media studies. He serves as Editor of the journal American Music.
The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series offers edited collections of original essays on music, in particular genres of cinema, television, video games, and new media. These edited essay collections are written for an interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars of music, and film and media studies.
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