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Oxford University Press Unlimited Replays Video Games and Classical Music Oxford MusicMedia Series
Book SynopsisClassical music is everywhere in video games. But what does it reveal about the cultural value we place on entertainment? Replay Value offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.Trade ReviewUnlimited Replays occupies a significant place in game music scholarship. It is the first book devoted to ever-intriguing instances of classical music in video games, and through addressing that topic, it seeks to build a bridge from ludomusicology toward more longstanding fields of enquiry ... an accessible, thoughtful, and thought-provoking work on a topic of interest across academic disciplines, and beyond -- classical-music concert programmers and critics might find much to consider here in regard to the music's future, for instance. Indeed, the book could be recommended to almost anybody with an interest in its topic. * Jonathan Godsall, Journal of Sound and Music in Games *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Press Start to Replay Chapter 1: Terms and Conditions Chapter 2: Playing with Music History Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's Cat Chapter 4: Allusions of Grandeur Chapter 5: A Clockwork Homage Chapter 6: Remixed Metaphors Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous Forms Chapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin Defenders Chapter 9: Playing Chopin Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical Music Chapter 11: Classifying Game Music Conclusion
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critics, and composers. Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works ofvisual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature, Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University.Trade ReviewGibbons synthesizes much recent literature on such topics as French musical nationalism and the reception of early music in the nineteenth century, and analyzes these cultural trends in a manner that is [extensively] documented, rich in insight, clear, and highly readable. The book is a model of skillful argument and of expertise in organizing a subject that could easily overflow; a lesson in history and historiography that succeeds in offering a convincing central thesis (the establishment of an Operatic Museum) without denying the manysidedness of historical reality. * IL SAGGIATORE MUSICAL *What makes the book particularly worthwhile is its careful contextualization of the major fin-de-siècle revivals of eighteenth-century operas including abundant selections from critical discourse. . . . One of the merits of Gibbons' book is the way it enables us to see how these dilemmas [of historical fidelity vs. practical viability, and of Germanic traditions vs. French national pride] were understood, and hotly debated, throughout the period in question, paving the way for a conception of the repertoire that is still very much with us. The book's most engrossing section is probably the one devoted to Mozart, for the [Austrian] composer's place within the French operatic pantheon would always entail the most complex negotiations. * NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW *Gibbons's well-written study of the productions of eighteenth-century operas in late nineteenth-century Paris considers broad issues of edition-making, nationalist interpretation, allegorical readings, and value judgment. An important addition to critical reflections on canon building. --Steven Huebner, McGill University * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction Museums Restorations (De)Translations Transitions Resurrections Tragedies Symbols Monuments Quarrels Archaeologies Notes Bibliography Index
£87.30
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critics, and composers. Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works ofvisual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature, Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University.Trade ReviewWhat makes the book particularly worthwhile is its careful contextualization of the major fin-de siècle revivals of eighteenth-century operas including abundant selections from critical discourse. . . . One of the merits of Gibbons' book is the way it enables us to see how these dilemmas [of historical fidelity vs. practical viability, and of Germanic traditions vs. French national pride] were understood, and hotly debated, throughout the period in question, paving the way for a conception of the repertoire that is still very much with us. The book's most engrossing section is probably the one devoted to Mozart, for the [Austrian] composer's place within the French operatic pantheon would always entail the most complex negotiations. * NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW *Gibbons's well-written study of the productions of eighteenth-century operas in late nineteenth-century Paris considers broad issues of edition-making, nationalist interpretation, allegorical readings, and value judgment. An important addition to critical reflections on canon building. -- Steven Huebner, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Museums Restorations (De)Translations Transitions Resurrections Tragedies Symbols Monuments Quarrels Archaeologies Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Music in the RolePlaying Game
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Taylor & Francis Music In Video Games
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Taylor & Francis Music in the RolePlaying Game
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Taylor & Francis Music In Video Games
Book SynopsisFrom its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies, to investigate the history, function, style, and conventions of video game music. Table of ContentsPreface: 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
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