TY - BOOK
T1 - Understanding Game Scoring
T2 - The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and through Gaming
AU - Enns, Mack
N1 - Publisher copyright:
© 2022 Mack Enns
PY - 2021/11/22
Y1 - 2021/11/22
N2 - Understanding Game Scoring explores the unique collaboration between gameplay and composition that defines musical scoring for video games. Using an array of case studies reaching back into the canon of classic video games, this book illuminates the musical flexibility, user interactivity and sound programming that make game scoring so different from traditional modes of composition. Mack Enns explores the collaboration between game scorers and players to produce the final score for a game, through case studies of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound hardware configuration, and game scores, including the canonic scores for Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986). This book is recommended reading for students and researchers interested in the composition and production of video game scores, as well as those interested in ludo-musicology.
AB - Understanding Game Scoring explores the unique collaboration between gameplay and composition that defines musical scoring for video games. Using an array of case studies reaching back into the canon of classic video games, this book illuminates the musical flexibility, user interactivity and sound programming that make game scoring so different from traditional modes of composition. Mack Enns explores the collaboration between game scorers and players to produce the final score for a game, through case studies of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound hardware configuration, and game scores, including the canonic scores for Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986). This book is recommended reading for students and researchers interested in the composition and production of video game scores, as well as those interested in ludo-musicology.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003045465
DO - 10.4324/9781003045465
M3 - Book or report
SN - 9780367492816
SN - 9780367492830
T3 - Perspectives on Music Production
BT - Understanding Game Scoring
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -