Music in Video Games : Studying Play (Hardcover)

Preface: All Your Bass Are Belong to Us  1. Mario’s Dynamic Leaps: Musical Innovations and the Specter of Early Cinema in Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. Neil Lerner  2. The Temporary Avatar Zone: Pico-Pico Parties in Tokyo Chris Tonelli 3. Nintendo’s Art of Musical Play Roger Moseley and Aya Saiki  4. Transcribing Musical Worlds, or, Is L.A. Noire a Music Game? Steven Beverburg Reale  5. Meaningful Modular Combinations: Simultaneous Harp and Environmental Music in Two Legend of Zelda Games Elizabeth Medina-Gray  6. Wandering Tonalities: Silence, Sound, and Morality in Shadow of the Colossus William Gibbons  7. Fear of the Unknown: Music and Sound Design in Psychological Horror Games Rebecca Roberts  8. Lawn of the Dead: The Indifference of Musical Destiny in Plants vs. Zombies K.J. Donnelly  9. Music, History, and Progress in Sid Meier’s Civilization IV Karen Cook  10. ‘The Place I’ll Return to Someday’: Musical Nostalgia in Final Fantasy IX Jessica Kizzire  11. From Parsifal to the PlayStation: Wagner and Video Game Music Tim Summers