Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance (Musik und Medien)

Annotation This anthology examines the various facets of video game music. Contributors from the fields of science and practice document its historical development, discuss the music's composition techniques, interactivity and function as well as attending to its performative aspects Front Matter....Pages 1-1 History of Video Game Music....Pages 11-40 Interactivity and Music in Computer Games....Pages 41-62 Droppin’ Science: Video Game Audio Breakdown....Pages 63-80 The Legacy of iMuse: Interactive Video Game Music in the 1990s....Pages 81-91 Scoring Play – Soundtracks and Video Game Genres....Pages 93-105 Resourceful Frames and Sensory Functions – Musical Transformations from Game to Film in Silent Hill ....Pages 107-124 Mundane Sounds in Miraculous Realms: An Auditory Analysis of Fantastical Games....Pages 125-146 Atmospheres at Play: Aesthetical Considerations of Game Music....Pages 147-157 Playing with Music – Featuring Sound in Games....Pages 159-170 Geeks on Stage? Investigations in the World of (Live) Chipmusic....Pages 171-190 P(l)aying Music and Games....Pages 191-214 Back Matter....Pages 13-13