Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies (Paperback)

Prologue: The Journey Begins (William Gibbons and Steven Reale) Part I: Magical Melodies 1. Song and the Transition to “Part-Talkie” Japanese Role-Playing Games (William Gibbons) 2.“The Things I Do for Lust”: Humor and Subversion in The Bard’s Tale (Karen Cook) 3. Mother/EarthBound Zero and the Power of the Naive Aesthetic: No Crying Until the End (Tim Summers) Part II: Mystical Metaphors 4. Alien Waves: The Gravitational Pull of Frequency Modulation in Lagrange Point (Kevin Burke) 5. Penultimate Fantasy: Nobuo Uematsu’s Score for Cleopatra no Ma Takara (Dana Plank) 6.Music in the Time of Video Games: Spelunking Final Fantasy IV (Julianne Grasso) 7.Operatic Conventions and Expectations in Final Fantasy VI (Ryan Thompson) Part III: Meaningful Memories 8. Ludo-musical Dissonance in Diablo III (Michiel Kamp) 9. A Hidden Harmony: Music Theory Pedagogy and Role-Playing Games (Meghan Naxer) 10. Soundwalking and the Aurality of Stardew Valley (Kate Galloway) 11. Musical Landscapes in Skyrim (Michiel Kamp and Mark Sweeney) 12. Barriers to Listening in World of Warcraft (Steven Reale) Notes on Contributors. Index.