科图分类法:	J605/32 版次：
中图分类法:	J605 版次：
题名:	The Cambridge companion to video game music / / ,
出版发行:	出版地： Cambridge, United Kingdom ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： 2021.
载体形态:	xxxv, 446 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容提要:	"Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years, at least since the titular aliens of Space Invaders arrived in 1978, accompanied by an ever-accelerating musical ostinato. Now, reaching hundreds of millions of listeners, game music has grown to encompass a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. Its instrumentation ranges from orchestras to rock bands, its contexts from bedroom televisions to concert halls, its materials from 'art music' to Top-40 pop, and its systems from generative music technologies to carefully hand-crafted idiosyncratic musical structures. No longer a novelty within electronic music technology, nor a poor relative to film music, game music engages huge audiences, large budgets, and is the site of innovative scholarship. As well as being a crucial component of the audio-visual interactive experience of video gaming, game music has also had a marked impact on broader popular culture. Simply put, video game music is an important aspect of the musical life of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the Western world, and has cross-fertilized with many musical genres. At the same time, game music highlights a long tradition of music and play that can be traced back to antiquity"--
主题词:	Video game music History and criticism.
主题词:	Video game music Psychological aspects.
主题词:	Video game music Production and direction.
主题词:	Chiptunes History and criticism.
主题词:	MUSIC / General
主要责任者:	Fritsch, Melanie. Fritsch, Melanie.
主要责任者:	Summers, Tim, Summers, Tim,
索书号:	J605/32