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Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games (Music Pro Guides) - Softcover

Summers, Tim

 
9781538192764: Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games (Music Pro Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1538192764 ISBN 13: 9781538192764
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at gamers, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Pixel Soundtracks explore a wide variety of topics, including:
the history of game musicsound technology and chip musicinteractive and generative music compositionhow game music tells stories, creates worlds & characters, and evokes emotions classical and pop music in gamesbattle and boss musicnostalgia, remakes, and fandomgame music concerts and albumsSummers dives deeply into twenty beloved games across the decades to illustrate crucial concepts. These games include Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros., BioShock Infinite, Dark Souls III, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, and more. The book is separated into five stages and a "final boss," and sections build off each other into increasingly broader topics-starting with the specifics of computer chips and ending with questions of game music's engagement with identity. The "final boss" brings together ideas presented throughout the book.
Based on the latest research, this book will allow readers to better understand the fantastic experiences and meanings that arise when games and music fuse together.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Summers is senior lecturer in music at Royal Holloway University of London. Summers co-founded the European Ludomusicology Research Group and was a founding editor of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. His books include Understanding Video Game Music, The Queerness of Video Game Music and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - A Game Score Companion. Tim regularly contributes to articles, podcasts and radio programs on the topic of video game music.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1538192764
ISBN 13 
9781538192764
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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