Keys to Play (eBook)

Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo

Roger Moseley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
468 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96509-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book's diverse objects of inquiryfrom clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titlesenter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard's topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Prelude: Press Any Key to Start

Part I. Fields and Interfaces of Musical Play
Key 1. Ludomusicality
1–1 Orders of Play
1–2 Beyond Work and Play
1–3 The Sound of Gunplay
1–4 Bits and Beats
1–5 Playing Undead

Key 2. Digital Analogies
2–1 Apollo 1, Marsyas 0
2–2 Notes on Keys
2–3 Interface Values
2–4 (Key)board Games and Temperamental Tactics
2–5 Tristan’s Chord, Schoenberg’s Voice

Part II. Play by Play: Improvisation, Performance, Recreation
Key 3. The Emergence of Musical Play
3–1 Unforeheard Circumstances
3–2 Pantomimes and Partimenti
3–3 From Black Box to Glassy Shell
3–4 The Case of Winkel’s Componium
3–5 The Invisible Thumb on the Scale

Key 4. High Scores: WAM vs. LVB
4–1 Unsettled Scores
4–2 Mozart’s Two-Player Games
4–3 Concerted Action
4–4 Mozart and Mario Play the Field
4–5 Beethoven’s Recursive Feedback Loops

Key 5. Play Again?
5–1 Nintendo’s Brand of Ludomusicality
5–2 Analogous Digitalities
5–3 The Ludomusical Emergence of Toshio Iwai
5–4 High Scores: Nodame Cantabile
5–5 Replay: A Cento

Notes
Bibliography
Ludography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: beethoven recursive feedback loop • fantasy music • foundations of music • gameplay music • Keyboards • Mozart • Musical Play • music and games • Music and Media • Music Criticism • Music History • music in video games • music theory • nintendo music • super mario music
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96509-4 / 0520965094
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96509-6 / 9780520965096