Tim Summers

Understanding Video Game Music

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781107116870
• ISBN-10: 1107116872
• Artikelnr.: 45153344

Autorenporträt

Tim Summers is Teaching Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London and has previously taught music at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol. As Centenary Research Scholar at Bristol, he wrote one of the first Ph.D.s on video game music. He is a co-founder of the UK Ludomusicology Research Group on video game music, and has written articles for journals including the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of Film Music and Music, Sound and the Moving Image. He has edited both a collection of essays on video game music, Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music, and a special issue of The Soundtrack on game audio.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword James Hannigan
Introduction
Part I. Analysing Video Game Music: 1. The video game as a source
2. Methods of analysis
Part II. Critical Perspectives: 3. Texturing and the aesthetics of immersion
4. Music and virtual game worlds
5. Communication for play
6. Hollywood film music and game music
7. Musical play and video games
Epilogue
Appendix: how to hear a video game
Bibliography.