Introduction: 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
William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University, where he is also Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera and Fin-de-siècle Paris and co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play.
"Unlimited 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
"From Chopin and Mussorgsky to Bioshock and Fallout, Gibbons
delivers a wondrous opus of sharp analyses into the intersections
between classical music and video game cultures. A rewarding read
for concert-goers and gamers alike." -- William Cheng, Assistant
Professor of Music, Dartmouth College, and author of Sound Play:
Video Games and the Musical Imagination
"Instead of weaponizing classical music (and so-called serious
culture) against video games, or vice versa, Gibbons's thoughtful
and important book shows how classical music can be deployed to
tease out rich readings of video games where it appears as well as
testifying to the ongoing resilience and relevance of classical
music." -- Neil Lerner, Professor of Music, Davidson College
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