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Music and Game

Perspectives on a Popular Alliance

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Editors:
  1. Peter Moormann

    1. Berlin, Germany

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  • Perspectives on a Popular Alliance
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Musik und Medien (MUME)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
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  2. History of Video Game Music

    • Melanie Fritsch
    Pages 11-40

  3. Interactivity and Music in Computer Games

    • Michael Liebe
    Pages 41-62

  4. Droppin’ Science: Video Game Audio Breakdown

    • Leonard J. Paul
    Pages 63-80

  5. The Legacy of iMuse: Interactive Video Game Music in the 1990s

    • Willem Strank
    Pages 81-91

  6. Scoring Play – Soundtracks and Video Game Genres

    • Andreas Rauscher
    Pages 93-105

  7. Resourceful Frames and Sensory Functions – Musical Transformations from Game to Film in Silent Hill

    • Florian Mundhenke
    Pages 107-124

  8. Mundane Sounds in Miraculous Realms: An Auditory Analysis of Fantastical Games

    • Marcus Erbe
    Pages 125-146

  9. Atmospheres at Play: Aesthetical Considerations of Game Music

    • Gregor Herzfeld
    Pages 147-157

  10. Playing with Music – Featuring Sound in Games

    • Michael Custodis
    Pages 159-170

  11. Geeks on Stage? Investigations in the World of (Live) Chipmusic

    • Matthias Pasdzierny
    Pages 171-190

  12. P(l)aying Music and Games

    • Stefan Strötgen
    Pages 191-214

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 13-13
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Berlin, Germany

    Peter Moormann

About the editor

Peter Moormann is a Research Associate in the Department of Musicology at the Freie Universität Berlin working within the Collaborative Research Centre 626 on Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits. His writings focus on film, music, and television.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Music and Game

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance

  • Editors: Peter Moormann

  • Series Title: Musik und Medien

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18913-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17409-9Published: 11 August 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-18913-0Published: 11 August 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2626-6199

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-6202

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 223

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communication Studies

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